Don't rape your half-sister and then murder her mother and grandparents when the police close in!

2017-M-351            State of Minnesota, Respondent, vs. Eddie Matthew Mosley, Appellant.

BACKGROUND:  James and Clover Bolden lived with their daughter Delois Brown and her daughter W.H. in a Brooklyn Park home where they ran a daycare center.  W.H. was the half-sister of Mosley, and DeLois Brown treated Mosley as her son.  Mosley lived in St. Louis, but he frequently travelled to Minnesota and stayed with Delois Brown.  That changed in the winter of 2011-2012.

In November 2011, W.H. reported to police that her daughter had been sexually molested by Mosley.

On April 3, 2012, a criminal complaint charging Mosley with first-degree criminal sexual conduct was mailed to his residence in St. Louis.

 On April 5, 2012, W.H. received 25 phone calls and 13 text messages from Mosley in St. Louis in which he stated, among other things, that “30 years . . . that’s life,” “we family sis this not the way,” and asked W.H. to make the charges go away.

On April 8, 2012, Mosley paid a friend to drive hum to Minnesota.  They arrived in Brooklyn Park before dawn.  The friend saw Mosely  within a few blocks of the Brown home.

Later that morning, on April 9, 2012, the Boldens and Brown were found shot to death in Brown’s house. Following a police investigation, Mosley was indicted.  Mosley waived his right to a jury trial, and the district court held a bench trial.

Mosley was convicted of three counts of first-degree premeditated murder and sentenced to three consecutive terms of life imprisonment without possibility of release.

In 2014, the Supreme Court rejected his direct appeal and affirmed his convictions and sentence.

In this first post-conviction appeal, Mosley is claiming he was entitled to a new trial based on newly discovered evidence in the form of affidavits signed by five alibi witnesses. He also claimed his trial counsel and appellate counsel provided ineffective assistance.  The post-conviction court denied his petition.

HELD:  The Supreme Court rejected this appeal and affirmed his convictions and sentence.

The post-conviction court did not abuse its discretion by summarily denying appellant’s request for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence because even if the facts alleged in the petition were proven by a fair preponderance of the evidence, appellant failed to satisfy the requirements of Rainer v. State, 566 N.W.2d 692 (Minn. 1997).  

The post-conviction court did not abuse its discretion by summarily denying appellant’s claims that his trial counsel and appellate counsel provided ineffective assistance because even if the facts alleged in the petition were proven by a fair preponderance of the evidence, appellant failed to satisfy the requirements of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984). Affirmed. Considered and decided by the court without oral argument.

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

Date: April 26, 2017

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

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Demographic Information**

MNDOC Offender ID:

241013

Name:

Eddie Matthew Mosley

Birth Date:

10/21/1977

Current Status:

Incarcerated as of 05/21/2013. Currently at MCF Rush City.

Sentence Date:

05/17/2013

Anticipated Release Date:

Life without Parole

Expiration Date:

Life

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