Stabbing multiple victims is not a good alternative to child support.

2015-M-300       Edbert Neal Williams, Appellant, vs. State of Minnesota, Respondent.

Appellant Edbert Williams was convicted in 1997 of first-degree premeditated murder for the stabbing death of Genelda Campeau and attempted first-degree murder for the stabbing of Campeau’s granddaughter, S.C.  Williams filed the present post-conviction petition, his second, in 2013, claiming that both his trial and appellate counsel were ineffective.  The district court denied the petition without holding an evidentiary hearing.  Because Williams’s claims are procedurally barred, we affirm. 

Police officers found 65-year-old Genelda Campeau stabbed to death in her Saint Paul home in January 1996.  When the officers arrived at the scene, they encountered Campeau’s granddaughter, S.C., who had suffered two stab wounds, one to her back and another to her chest.  The officers questioned S.C. about the incident, and she told them that Williams, her former boyfriend and the father of her child, was the assailant.

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

[MURDER]

A14-475,