MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office is taking its fight over a "critical" piece of evidence in a high-profile murder retrial to the state’s highest court. Prosecutors have filed an appeal with the Minnesota Supreme Court over a post-Miranda police interrogation video recorded during the investigation into the 2022 murder of Minneapolis North High School star student-athlete Deshaun Hill, Junior.

The interrogation of suspect Cody Fohrenkam in police custody has been at the center of a courtroom battle for more than a year. It was shown to jurors in Fohrenkam’s first murder trial where a jury quickly convicted him on second-degree murder charges. But the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled the interview was obtained illegally by violating Fohrenkam’s constitutiona

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