Opinion

State v. Jones

  • 678 N.W.2d 1
  • 2004 Minn. LEXIS 119
  • 2004 WL 439927
Court
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Filed
Mar 11, 2004
Status
Published
Author
Page
On the bench
Paul H. Anderson
Cited by
70 cases

noting that “when a defendant seeks to introduce exculpatory evidence based on an alternative perpetrator theory, the court must still evaluate this evidence under the ordinary evidentiary rules as it would any other exculpatory evidence”

How later courts described this case

  • noting that “when a defendant seeks to introduce exculpatory evidence based on an alternative perpetrator theory, the court must still evaluate this evidence under the ordinary evidentiary rules as it would any other exculpatory evidence”
  • stating that a collection of information can provide probable cause, even if each individual fact does not
  • rejecting a similarly broad definition of the term “victims,” noting that such a broad definition would lead to “absurd” results
  • concerning whether the sister of a murder victim was entitled to restitution

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

PAGE, J.

(concurring in part).

I join in part the concurrence of Justice Sam Hanson.

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