Ferguson v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the second Larrison prong is satisfied where the witness who recanted was the only eyewitness to the shooting who testified at trial and he testified that the defendant was involved in the shooting
• reaffirming that “a simple statement contradicting earlier testimony is insufficient to establish the petitioner’s right to a new trial”
• holding that the postconviction court should have held an evidentiary hearing to determine whether a recantation met the first prong of Larrison where a witness’s affidavit said he lied at trial, specified the false information, and gave reasons for telling the lie at trial
• witness recanted his trial testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2010-12-29· cited 58×
• Andersen v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2018-06-13· cited 26×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-01-30· cited 21×
• Lincoln Lamar Caldwell v. State of Minnesota
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2014-09-24· cited 20×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2010-09-09· cited 13×
• Ferguson v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-02-27· cited 11×
• Dobbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-10-02· cited 10×
• Danny Ortega, Jr. v. State of Minnesota
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2014-11-19· cited 8×
• LaMonte Rydell Martin v. State of Minnesota
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2015-06-17· cited 6×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2019-03-20· cited 2×
• Thomas Robert Tichich v. State of Minnesota
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2024-03-20

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Knaffla
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1976-06-25· cited 418×
• Opsahl v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2004-04-08· cited 130×
• State v. Caldwell
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-08-06· cited 102×
• Ferguson v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2002-06-13· cited 55×
• State v. Turnage
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2007-04-05· cited 34×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2002-08-01· cited 29×
• State v. Ferguson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2007-12-27· cited 27×
• Doppler v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2009-09-10· cited 26×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2007-01-18· cited 21×
• Vance v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2008-07-10· cited 20×
• State v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1984-12-07· cited 10×