CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS v. BUSCHETTE

No. 45040.

240 N.W.2d 500 (1976)

CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS, Respondent, v. Debra A. BUSCHETTE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

January 23, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, William J. Mauzy, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Walter J. Duffy, Jr., City Atty., J. David Abramson, and John P. Fitzgerald, Jr., Asst. City Attys., Dennis L. Peterson, Student Intern, for respondent.

Olkon & Olkon and Nancy K. Olkon, Minneapolis, amicus curiae, seeking reversal.

Heard before SHERAN, C. J., and OTIS, ROGOSHESKE, PETERSON, KELLY, MacLAUGHLIN, YETKA, SCOTT and CHANAK, JJ., and considered and decided by the court en banc.


KELLY, Justice.

Defendant appeals from her conviction of prostitution in Hennepin County Municipal Court after denial of her motion to dismiss the charge because of alleged discriminatory enforcement of the Minneapolis prostitution ordinance.1 We affirm.

Defendant, Debra A. Buschette, was arrested by a Minneapolis plainclothes police officer on September 14, 1973, and charged with violating Minneapolis Code of Ordinances, §...

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