STATE v. CLARK

Nos. 46056, 46070.

250 N.W.2d 199 (1977)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Diane Marie CLARK, Appellant, Jimmie Francis Pavelka, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

January 21, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'Connell & Thuet and William F. Thuet, Hastings, for Clark.

Collins & Buckley and Earl P. Gray, St. Paul, for Pavelka.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, John O. Sonsteng, County Atty., Thomas F. VanHorn, Asst. County Atty., Hastings, for respondent.

Heard before SHERAN, PETERSON and SCOTT, JJ., and considered and decided by the court en banc.


SCOTT, Justice.

These are consolidated appeals from judgments of the Dakota County District Court convicting Jimmie F. Pavelka and Diane M. Clark of unlawful possession of controlled substances. On appeal defendants dispute the findings of the district court following a Rasmussen hearing on suppression of evidence. The case centers on the legality of the warrantless arrests of the defendants, pursuant to which evidence leading to their convictions was seized. Appellants...

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