Do not kill an undercover police officer!  Ever!

2016-M-322         Harry Jerome Evans, Appellant, vs. State of Minnesota, Respondent.

THE ISSUE:  Here, the Supreme Court upheld the trial court’s order that Evans pay restitution to the Crime Victim Reparations Board when it convicted Evans of the murder of St. Paul police sergeant Gerald Vick.

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.  The Supreme Court affirmed Evans’s conviction on direct appeal in 2008, and the district court’s subsequent denial of his first post-conviction petition in 2010. 

In 2015, Evans appealed to “correct his sentence” by eliminating the requirement of restitution.  Because state law required Evans to file such a motion for a correction of sentence within 30 days after the sentence was imposed, the Supreme Court denied this appeal as untimely.

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

               Took No Part:  Chutich.

               [MURDER] [PREMEDITATED] [FIRST-DEGREE] [POLICE] [RESTITUTION]

Date: June 08, 2016