State of Minnesota v. Jamal L. Smith

Citations

• 9 N.W.3d 543

Syllabus

1. Appellant failed to show that the district court judge was biased. 2. Appellant failed to show that defense counsel was ineffective because counsel did not move to change venue. 3. Appellant's claim that the grand and petit jury pools did not reflect a fair cross-section of the community fails because he did not show that Black persons were underrepresented in the jury pool selection process or that any underrepresentation resulted from systematic exclusion. 4. The district court did not abuse its discretion when it admitted evidence of appellant's prior bad acts because the evidence was admissible under the Spreigl exception or as direct or corroborative evidence of a charged crime. 5. The only reasonable inference supported by the circumstances proved, when viewed as a whole, is that appellant fired the fatal shot. Affirmed.