2013-M-225             Andrew Thomas Hawes, petitioner, Appellant, vs. State of Minnesota, Respondent.

Appellant Andrew Hawes (Hawes) was found guilty after a jury trial and subsequently convicted of aiding and abetting the first-degree premeditated murder of his brother, Edwin Hawes.

The post-conviction court did not abuse its discretion in denying appellant’s petition for post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of trial counsel because there is no reasonable probability that the introduction of certain out-of-court statements made by the victim to police affected the outcome of the trial.  The trial court’s error, if any, in admitting certain statements made by appellant’s sister and his girlfriend to police was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.

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

[MURDER]

A10-1351, A12-212,