Case ID: minn_297/html/0503-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JOHN W. SCHATZLE v. STATE.
    210 N. W. 2d 50.
    August 17, 1973
    No. 43371.
    
      C. Paul Jones, State Public Defender, and Carl Newquist, Assistant State Public Defender, for appellant.
    
      Warren Spannaus, Attorney General, Curtis D. Porslund, Solicitor General, Gilbert S. Buffington, Special Assistant Attorney General, and Ronald H, Schneider, County Attorney, for respondent.
   Per Curiam.

Defendant, found guilty by a district court jury of aggravated assault, Minn. St. 609.225, subd. 1, and sentenced to imprisonment according to law, contends on this appeal from an order denying post-conviction relief that his trial counsel did not adequately represent him in that he failed to use a prior allegedly inconsistent statement to impeach the key prosecution witness’s testimony. We affirm the order.

The witness’s prior statement was not, as defendant alleges, inconsistent with the witness’s trial testimony. We therefore have no difficulty in rejecting defendant’s contention that his trial counsel did not adequately represent him.

Affirmed.