2007-M-053                Brian Keith Pippitt, petitioner, Appellant, vs. State of Minnesota, Respondent.

This case comes to us on appeal from the post-conviction court’s denial of petitioner’s petition for post-conviction relief.  Pippitt was convicted of the first-degree premeditated murder of Evelyn Malin and first-degree murder while committing burglary.  For these crimes, Pippitt received two concurrent life sentences.  On direct appeal we vacated the conviction for first-degree murder while committing burglary and affirmed the conviction for first-degree premeditated murder.  We held, among other things, that the evidence was sufficient to convict Pippitt of first-degree premeditated murder.

Approximately three years after we decided his direct appeal, Pippitt petitioned for post-conviction relief.  After an evidentiary hearing, the post-conviction court denied the petition.  Pippitt now appeals to this court claiming that the post-conviction court erred when it found that he was not entitled to a new trial based on new evidence, prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective assistance of trial counsel. We affirm

Gildea (Russell Anderson, Page, Paul Anderson, Hanson, Meyer, and Barry Anderson)

DATE OF DECISION:  August 16, 2007

RECORD NUMBER:  2007-116

FULL OPINION: 

DESCRIPTION:  [MURDER] 

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