VANCE v. STATE

No. A07-1552.

752 N.W.2d 509 (2008)

Philip VANCE, petitioner, Appellant, v. STATE of Minnesota, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

July 10, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Vance, MCF-Stillwater, Bayport, MN, for Pro Se Appellant.

Lori Swanson, Attorney General, St. Paul, MN, James C. Backstrom, Dakota County Attorney, Kevin J. Golden, Assistant County Attorney, Hastings, MN, for Respondent.

Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.


OPINION

PAGE, Justice.

Appellant Philip Vance appeals the district court's summary denial of his petition for postconviction relief. We affirm.

Vance was convicted in 2004 of the December 22, 2002, murder of Khaled Al-Bakri.1 In his direct appeal, Vance asserted that the district court erred by (1) excluding alternative-perpetrator evidence and reverse-Spreigl evidence; (2) allowing, without providing a cautionary...

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