STATE v. FERRARO

No. 49465.

290 N.W.2d 177 (1980)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Michael Dennis FERRARO, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

March 7, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, Linda Matthews Britton and Susan Maki, Asst. Public Defenders, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Thomas W. Foley, County Atty., and Steven C. DeCoster, Asst. County Atty., St. Paul, for respondent.

Heard before OTIS, YETKA, and SCOTT, JJ., and considered and decided by the court en banc.


OTIS, Justice.

Defendant Michael Dennis Ferraro was convicted by a jury of theft of property with a value greater than $100.00, a violation of Minn.Stat. § 609.52 (1978). He appeals challenging the admission of evidence seized without a warrant, the propriety of a jury instruction, and the sufficiency of the evidence. We affirm.

During the afternoon of Tuesday, March 14, 1978, a police officer observed defendant's white window van in the parking lot of...

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