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Title: State Minnesota v. Steven L. Googins
Author : Supreme Court of Minnesota
Release Date : January 03, 1977
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
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PER CURIAM. Defendant, after a lengthy trial on a total of seven separate charges, was found guilty by a district court jury of terroristic threats, indecent exposure, and disorderly conduct, Minn.St. 609.713, subd. 1, 617.23, and 609.72, subd. 1(2)(3), and was sentenced by the trial court to a maximum 3-year term in prison with execution stayed. Defendant raises two issues on this appeal from judgment of conviction: (1) Whether the trial court erred in ordering a joint trial or in denying defendant's motion for mistrial after his two co-defendants pleaded guilty during trial, and (2) whether the prosecutor committed misconduct in his closing statement by repeatedly arguing that the prosecution's witnesses had no motive for committing perjury and by suggesting that defendant did. We affirm.