Well, St. Peter, I was standing on my front lawn, and this robber walked up!

2016-M-324         Jerome Emmanuel Davis, Appellant, vs. State of Minnesota, Respondent.

THE BACKGROUND:  On May 11, 2007, Davis shot to death Armando Calix in the course of an aggravated robbery on Calix’ front lawn.

Following a jury trial, the district court convicted Davis of first-degree felony murder and sentenced him to life in prison.

On direct appeal, the Supreme Court rejected Davis’ claims in 2012.

Davis raised the same claims in a 2013 federal petition for a writ of habeas corpus.  The U.S. District Court dismissed that petition with prejudice in 2014.  However, one issue from that petition remained on appeal with the U.S. Circuit Court at the time of this opinion.

THIS APPEAL:   More than two years after the Supreme Court rejected Davis’ direct appeal, the post-conviction court granted Davis a six-month extension to file this, his first post-conviction appeal.  He filed it in April, 2015.  The post-conviction court denied all 15 claims under the Knaffla doctrine because all of the claims should have been brought in an earlier appeal or should have been known at the time of an earlier appeal.

Here, the Supreme Court agreed that all 15 of Davis’ claims were barred under the Knaffla doctrine because all of the claims should have been brought in an earlier appeal or should have been known at the time of an earlier appeal.

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

               [CRIME] [MURDER] [PREMEDITATED] [FIRST-DEGREE] [ROBBERY]

Date: June 15, 2016