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STATE OF MINNESOTA IN SUPREME COURT A10-1986

Kanabec County State of Minnesota, Respondent, vs. Craig Matthew Hohenwald, Appellant. ________________________

Stras, J.

Filed: July 11, 2012 Office of Appellate Courts

Lori Swanson, Attorney General, John B. Galus, Assistant Attorney General, St. Paul, Minnesota; and Amy K. Brosnahan, Kanabec County Attorney, Mora, Minnesota, for respondent. David W. Merchant, Chief Appellate Public Defender, Michael F. Cromett, Assistant State Public Defender, St. Paul, Minnesota, for appellant. ________________________ SYLLABUS 1. An order suspending the criminal proceedings pursuant to Minn. R. Crim.

P. 20.01 did not invalidate the grand jury's subsequent indictment for first-degree premeditated murder. 2. The record contains sufficient evidence to support the district court's

verdict that the appellant was guilty of the offense of first-degree premeditated murder rather than heat-of-passion manslaughter. 1

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The unobjected-to prosecutorial errors did not affect the appellant's

substantial rights. 4. harmless. Affirmed. OPINION STRAS, Justice. After the State filed a criminal complaint against appellant Craig Matthew Hohenwald charging him with four counts of second-degree murder, a grand jury indicted Hohenwald on two counts of first-degree premeditated murder, Minn. Stat.

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