Don't kill an undercover police officer.  Ever!

2015-M-295       Harry Jerome Evans, Appellant, vs. State of Minnesota, Respondent.

THE CRIME:  St. Paul Sgt. Gerald Vick was a hero.  He won his first Medal of Valor for crashing through flames twice to save two toddlers from a burning home in 1990/  He won his second Medal of Valor in 1997 by saving a robbery victim and surviving a gun battle with the robber.  He won his third Medal of Valor for facing drug kingpin and gang enforcer Harold Jerome Evans during an undercover vice operation when Evans murdered him on May 6, 2005.  Evans ran to an adjoining porch and threw the murder weapon into the nearby yard.

Appellant Harry Jerome Evans was convicted of first-degree murder of a peace officer for the 2005 murder of St. Paul police sergeant Gerald Vick.  We affirmed Evans’s conviction on direct appeal, and the district court’s subsequent denial of his first post-conviction petition. 

This Appeal:  In May 2014, Evans filed a motion for relief from judgment,, which alleged a number of claims

including ineffective assistance of trial and appellate counsel.  The district court treated Evans’s motion as a second post-conviction petition. 

Concluding in part that all of Evans’s claims are untimely under the post-conviction statute, the district court denied Evans’s request for relief.  Because we also conclude that Evans’s claims are untimely, we affirm

Anderson (Gildea, Dietzen, Stras, Wright, and Lillehaug)

[MURDER]

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