The Minnesota Supreme Court will review a 2020 Duluth attempted murder case after an appeals court ordered its retrial last summer.

Chief Justice Natalie E. Hudson signed a notice dated Nov. 19 in which the court agreed to take up a petition from the Attorney General's Office, which had argued that the state Court of Appeals' decision had impeded prosecutors in other jurisdictions from proceeding with criminal cases.

The Supreme Court's announcement was first reported by the Duluth News Tribune.

In February 2023, a Duluth jury convicted Seneca Steeprock, now 43, of Jordan, Minn., of first-degree attempted murder for participating in an ambush of 20-year-old Cameron Maurice Jones in a central city apartment.

However, a three-judge appeals court panel ruled in July that Judge Leslie Beiers, who presided over the case, erred when allowing the prosecution to obtain a sample of Steeprock's DNA by court order rather than through a search warrant.

"[T]he constitutional error in admitting the DNA evidence at Steeprock's jury trial was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt," Judge Diane Bratvold wrote.

Authorities said Steeprock and Alexia Gah Gi Gay Mary Cutbank entered the room where Jones was staying and shot him eight times. Police recovered more than a dozen shell casings.

Cutbank pleaded guilty to attempted murder. At the time of her plea, Cutbank was already serving a 20-year federal sentence for a murder on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in August 2019.