Officer Jerry Haaf was shot in the back four times by two or three young men as he sat and drank coffee at the Pizza Shack on Lake Street that might. It is suspected that Ed Harris and other Vice Lord associates were subsequently murdered by Vice Lord affiliates to cover up liability for the murder of Officer Haaf.
McKenzie was convicted and sentenced to life in 1993. See here. ;
Shannon Bowles was convicted and sentenced to two life terms and 180 months in 1994. See here.
Montery Willis was convicted and sentenced in 1995 and sentenced to life plus 220 months. See here.
Samuel "Sharif" Willis was convicted and sentenced to twenty-nine years by a federal court on unrelated terrorism charges related to the Vice Lords gang and The City in Minneapolis.
Ford was convicted and sentenced to life plus twenty years in 2005. See here.
Chief Justice Lorie Skjerven ruled on two appeals by Mwati "Pepi" Mckenzie.
First, in 2005, the Supreme Court rejected McKenzie's fifth appeal. See here.
The Supreme Court held that McKenzie's two claims regarding the Hennepin grand jury process and ineffective assistance of counsel were barred because he did or should have known about these claims but did not raise them in earlier appeals.
In 2006, the Supreme Court rejected McKenzie's sixth appeal. See here.
First, the Supreme Court rejected McKenzie's claim that his sentence violated the Blakely doctrine because because Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004), does not apply retroactively to petitioner, and further, petitioner’s mandatory life sentence does not violate the rule of Blakely.
Second, the Supreme Court rejected McKenzie's claim that the Department of Corrections violated his due process rights when it withheld money from his wages for the Crime Victims Reparations Board fails because it was improper to bring the claim in a petition for post-conviction relief.
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