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- Title: Blaine Lundeen v. Joseph Renteria
- Author : Supreme Court of Minnesota
- Release Date : January 08, 1974
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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In 1998, a St. Louis County jury found appellant Brad Alan Voorhees guilty of first-degree premeditated murder and he was sentenced to a mandatory term of life in prison. We affirmed Voorhees conviction in State v. Voorhees, 596 N.W.2d 241 (Minn. 1999). Voorhees then filed a pro se petition for post-conviction relief alleging violations of due process at trial and on appeal, errors in jury instructions, newly-discovered evidence, misconduct on the part of the prosecutor, violation of his right to effective assistance of trial and appellate counsel, and insufficient evidence of premeditation. The post-conviction court denied relief, concluding that Voorhees raised only claims that he had already raised or could have raised in his direct appeal and that the evidence did not support his ineffective assistance of counsel claim. On appeal, Voorhees argues that the post-conviction court abused its discretion in denying his petition without conducting an evidentiary hearing or granting a new trial, that he was denied his constitutional right to appointment of effective counsel throughout his proceedings, and that the post-conviction court abused its discretion in dismissing his petition without issuing findings of fact and conclusions of law. We affirm.