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STATE OF MINNESOTA
IN SUPREME COURT
C9-02-1382

Hennepin County               Hanson, J.
State of Minnesota,
Respondent, Filed:  May 29, 2003 Office of Appellate Courts vs.
Ronald Lewis Greer,
Appellant.
S Y L L A B U S
1. In conducting a Schwartz hearing to consider claims of improper ex parte contacts between the trial judge and the jury, the district court did not abuse its discretion by questioning only six of the twelve jurors.
2.         On an appeal after remand, the matters raised and resolved in the original appeal that resulted in
the remand and any claims known but not raised in that original appeal will not be considered. Affirmed.            Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.
O P I N I O N HANSON, Justice.            Appellant Ronald Lewis Greer was convicted of first- and second-degree murder. State v. Greer, 635 N.W.2d 82, 84 (Minn. 2001).  On his original appeal, we remanded the conviction to the chief judge of the
judicial district to determine whether a Schwartz hearing[1] was needed to inquire into ex parte contacts between the trial judge and the jury during Greer

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