Maureen Ndidiamaka Onyelobi v. State of Minnesota

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of Onyelobi’s first postconviction petition without an evidentiary hearing. It held that her challenges to the storage-locker search, jury instructions, and trial counsel were procedurally barred because they were known or should have been known on direct appeal, while her ineffective-assistance-of-appellate-counsel claim failed because the underlying arguments lacked merit. The court also concluded that counsel’s concession of assault was part of a consistent strategy to which Onyelobi acquiesced.