STATE OF MINNESOTA
IN SUPREME COURT
C0-98-1698
| Hennepin County | Page, J. |
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State of Minnesota,
vs. Donnie Tomiji Thames,
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Filed: July 15, 1999 Office of Appellate Courts |
S Y L L A B U S
1. On the record presented, the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it allowed the state to impeach its own witness with a statement the witness gave to the police shortly after the murder.
2. The trial court did not abuse its discretion when it instructed the jury as to how it could use that witness' testimony.
3. The record contains sufficient evidence to sustain appellant's first-degree felony murder conviction.
Affirmed.
Heard, considered, and decided by the court en banc.
O P I N I O N
PAGE, Justice.
Following a jury trial in Hennepin County District Court, appellant Donnie Tomiji Thames was convicted of one count of first-degree murder in violation of Minn. Stat.