State of Minnesota v. Nisius Dealvin McAllister

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that any error in the case \was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt because the verdict was surely unattributable to the error\
• concluding that a killing “furthered the commission of the robbery by facilitating the escape of the three men, preventing McMillan from later identifying his assailants, and preventing the possibility of retaliation.”
• noting that “[i]t is rare for the State to establish a defendant’s state of mind through direct evidence”
• stressing that it is rare for the State to prove state of mind through direct evidence
• rejecting evidence in the record that conflicts with the circumstances proved by the State
• rejecting evidence in the record that conflicts with the circumstances proved by the State

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).