STATE v. CLIFTON

No. A03-1964.

701 N.W.2d 793 (2005)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Brian Alexander CLIFTON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

August 4, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence Hammerling, State Public Defender, Suzanne M. Senecal-Hill, Assistant Public Defender, Minneapolis, MN, for Appellant.

Mike Hatch, Attorney General, St. Paul, MN, Amy Klobuchar, Hennepin County Attorney, Patrick C. Diamond, Sr., Assistant County Attorney, Minneapolis, MN, for Respondent.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


OPINION

ANDERSON, RUSSELL A., Justice.

Appellant Brian Alexander Clifton was convicted, following a jury trial in Hennepin County District Court, of premeditated first-degree murder for the shooting death of Steven Earl Nix and sentenced to life imprisonment. On appeal, Clifton asserts he was denied a fair trial by the admission of evidence that a state's witness had been threatened after testifying at an earlier trial, the submission of a no-adverse inference...

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