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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. McKeig affirms the defendant's murder conviction, finding that he is not entitled to postconviction relief on any of the four theories he raises. The district court did not act improperly in allowing prosecutors to call a recanting codefendant for impeachment purposes, and the state sufficiently showed that the murder was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the armed burglary that precipitated it. An ineffective-assistance claim based on trial counsel's alleged failure to explain what an Alford plea is not sufficiently supported by evidence, particularly evidence that the state ever offered an Alford plea. Finally, the defendant has forfeited a claim that the prosecutor knowingly offered false evidence to a grand jury and the district court did not violate state law when it found the defendant guilty of some, but not all, of the charged counts.