2012-M-209           Jeremy Jackson, petitioner, Appellant, vs. State of Minnesota, Respondent.

In December 2007 the Hennepin County District Court convicted Jeremy Jackson of (1) first-degree murder committed for the benefit of a gang for the shooting death of Gennaro Knox and (2) attempted first-degree murder committed for the benefit of a gang for the shooting of T.K.  We affirmed Jackson’s convictions on direct appeal. 

Jackson filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.  That court denied Jackson’s petition and dismissed the action with prejudice. 

Jackson then filed a petition for post-conviction relief in Hennepin County District Court, claiming several violations of his right to counsel under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.  The post-conviction court denied Jackson’s petition without a hearing, and Jackson appeals to our court.  We affirm.

HELD: Petitioner is not entitled to post-conviction relief on his claims of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel when his petition did not identify any prejudice resulting from the failure of petitioner’s counsel to raise specific challenges to the State’s evidence and did not identify any federal constitutional claims that counsel unreasonably failed to raise.

 

Paul Anderson (Gildea, Page, Meyer, Barry Anderson, Dietzen and Stras)

[MURDER]