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Opinions in Minnesota that cite Lynch v. State, 749 N.W.2d 318.
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Devin Matthew Weiland v. State of Minnesota
Minn. Ct. App. 2026
Under this doctrine, a court’s decision upon a rule of law “should continue to govern the same issues in subsequent stages in the same case.” Lynch v. State , (quotations omitted).
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Donald Dequai Crenshaw v. State of Minnesota
Minn. Ct. App. 2026
see also Minn. Stat. § 590.04, subd.
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Sean William Roulo v. State of Minnesota
Minn. Ct. App. 2026
See Lynch v. State , (Minn. 7 Moreover, Roulo has not identified any facts supporting these claims that needed further development at an evidentiary hearing.
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State of Minnesota v. Terry Izeal Heggs
Minn. Ct. App. 2026
See Heggs, 2024 WL 3493817, at *3
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DeMarcus LeMaine Barker v. State of Minnesota
Minn. Ct. App. 2025
Even if Barker had raised this issue during district court proceedings, we would reject his position based on the law-of-the-case doctrine, which provides that “when a court decides upon a rule of law, that decision should continue to govern the same issues in subsequent stages in the same case.” (quotation omitted) (applying the law-of-the-case doctrine to reject a postconviction claim considered on direct appeal).
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Juan Humberto Castillo-Alvarez v. State of Minnesota
Minn. Ct. App. 2025
Additionally, the doctrine bars relitigating an issue resolved earlier in the same case “even if the issue presented is not precisely the same in all its details.” Townsend, d at 17 ().
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Mark Scott Hendrickson v. State of Minnesota
Minn. Ct. App. 2025
There are two exceptions to this general rule: (1) “if the claim’s novelty was so great that its legal basis was not reasonably available when direct appeal was taken” or (2) “when fairness so requires and when the petitioner did not deliberately and inexcusably fail to raise the issue on direct appeal.” (quoting Leake, d at 535).
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Roosevelt Bartu, Jr. v. State of Minnesota
Minn. Ct. App. 2025
Next, Bartu asserts that his claim should not be barred because “Miranda is a constitutional issue that everyone in the United States is afforded.” But the Knaffla bar “applies even in postconviction proceedings raising constitutional issues of criminal procedure.” (quotations omitted).
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Albert George McIntosh v. State of Minnesota
Minn. Ct. App. 2024
1 (2022); (“A petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing unless the petition and the files and records of the proceedings conclusively show that the petitioner is entitled to no relief.” (quotations omitted)).
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Derrick Lemar Forest v. State of Minnesota
Minn. Ct. App. 2024
There are two exceptions to this rule: (1) “if the claim’s novelty was so great that its legal basis was not reasonably available when direct appeal was taken” and (2) in the interests of justice, “when fairness so requires and when the petitioner did not deliberately and inexcusably fail to raise the issue on direct appeal.” ().
- Tescil Romalis Mason-Kimmons v. State of Minnesota Minn. Ct. App. 2024
- Tescil Romalis Mason-Kimmons v. State of Minnesota Minn. Ct. App. 2024
- Otha Eric Townsend v. State of Minnesota Minn. 2024
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Otha Eric Townsend v. State of Minnesota
Minn. 2024
(stating that the law of the case doctrine bars issues that have been previously decided in the same case).
- State of Minnesota v. Paul Scott Seeman Minn. Ct. App. 2023
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State of Minnesota v. Paul Scott Seeman
Minn. Ct. App. 2023
(“Because on direct appeal we explicitly considered, addressed, and made a holding regarding [the defendant’s] current postconviction claim, we conclude that .
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Kristopher Lee Roybal v. State of Minnesota
Minn. Ct. App. 2023
“Issues determined in a first appeal will not be relitigated in the trial court nor re-examined in a second appeal.” (quotation omitted) (applying law-of-the-case doctrine); (concluding law-of-the-case doctrine barred a postconviction claim that had been decided on direct appeal).
- Carlos Orlandos Smith, Minn. 2022
- Robert Lee Crum v. State of Minnesota Minn. Ct. App. 2020
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State of Minnesota v. Erick Carl Longo
Minn. Ct. App. 2019
2 When this “court decides upon a rule of law, that decision should cont inue to govern the same issues in subsequent stages in the same case.” (quotation omitted) (applying “law of the case” doctrine on appeal from denial of a postconviction claim); (“When an appellate court has ruled on an issue of law, the issue decided becomes law of
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Dane Joseph Riley v. State of Minnesota
Minn. Ct. App. 2019
This is because the procedural bar prevents an appellant’s claim that was “previously raised, litigated, and decided on direct appeal.” d 318, 319 (Minn. 2008).
- Jackson v. State 919 N.W.2d 470 Minn. 2018
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Jackson v. State
919 N.W.2d 470
Minn. 2018
Lynch v. State , , 321 (Minn. 2008) (quoting Schleicher v. State , , 445 (Minn. 2006) ).
- Zornes v. State 903 N.W.2d 411 Minn. 2017
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Zornes v. State
903 N.W.2d 411
Minn. 2017
A court also need not hold a hearing when the petition is based on “argumentative assertions without factual support.” (citations omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted).
- Brown v. State 895 N.W.2d 612 Minn. 2017
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Brown v. State
895 N.W.2d 612
Minn. 2017
The petition must allege “more than argumentative assertions without factual support.” (citations omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted).
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A16-0648
Minn. 2017
The petition must allege “more than argumentative assertions without factual support.” (citations omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted).
- Otha Eric Townsend v. State of Minnesota 867 N.W.2d 497 Minn. 2015
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Otha Eric Townsend v. State of Minnesota
867 N.W.2d 497
Minn. 2015
d 318, 321 (Minn. 2008) (stating that the law of the case doctrine bars issues that have been previously decided in the same case).
- Frank Anthony Mendoza v. State of Minnesota Minn. Ct. App. 2015
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Frank Anthony Mendoza v. State of Minnesota
Minn. Ct. App. 2015
That doctrine provides that “when a court decides upon a rule of law, that decision should continue to govern the same issues in subsequent stages in the same case.” (quotations omitted).
- Nissalke v. State 861 N.W.2d 88 Minn. 2015
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Nissalke v. State
861 N.W.2d 88
Minn. 2015
The petition must allege “more than argumentative assertions without factual support.”
- State of Minnesota v. Erik Alan Vacek Minn. Ct. App. 2014
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State of Minnesota v. Erik Alan Vacek
Minn. Ct. App. 2014
3 (2012) (stating that the court may summarily deny a second or successive petition when the issues raised in it have been previously decided by this court or the supreme court in the same case); (stating that the Minnesota Supreme Court “addressed and decided this 5 precise issue on direct appeal and denied relief.
- Randall Mark Spears v. State of Minnesota Minn. Ct. App. 2014
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Randall Mark Spears v. State of Minnesota
Minn. Ct. App. 2014
(“This doctrine provides that when a court decides upon a rule of law, that decision should continue to govern the same issues in subsequent stages in the same case.”) (quotations omitted)); (“Issues determined in a first appeal will not be reliti
- Francis v. State 781 N.W.2d 892 Minn. 2010
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Francis v. State
781 N.W.2d 892
Minn. 2010
(“We conclude that [defendant’s claim ...