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STATE OF MINNESOTA IN SUPREME COURT A08-1199 Isanti County State of Minnesota, Respondent, vs. Ryan Adam Johnson, Appellant. ________________________ Filed: October 8, 2009 Office of Appellate Courts Magnuson, C.J.

Lori Swanson, Attorney General, Peter R. Marker, Assistant Attorney General, St. Paul, Minnesota; and Jeffrey R. Edblad, Isanti County Attorney, Cambridge, Minnesota, for respondent. Jessica Merz Godes, Assistant State Public Defender, St. Paul, Minnesota, for appellant. ________________________

SYLLABUS In order to prove beyond a reasonable doubt a pattern of child or domestic abuse, the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt a sufficient number of underlying acts of abuse to constitute a pattern. The evidence was sufficient to meet that standard. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.

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OPINION MAGNUSON, Chief Justice. Appellant, Ryan Adam Johnson, was convicted of first-degree murder while committing child abuse, Minn. Stat.

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