STATE v. LYNARD

No. 51248.

294 N.W.2d 322 (1980)

STATE of Minnesota, Appellant, v. Colleen T. LYNARD, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

June 17, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Gary Hansen and Richard D. Hodsdon, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., St. Paul, John F. Corbey, County Atty., and David Twa, Asst. County Atty., Mankato, for appellant.

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, and Robert Streitz, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, James W. Brandt, St. Peter, for respondent.

Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.


SHERAN, Chief Justice.

This is a pretrial appeal by the state pursuant to R. 29.03, subd. 1, R.Crim.P., from an order of the district court denying a motion by the state to admit evidence of crimes subsequent to the crime charged in order to rebut the defense of entrapment. The trial court, concluding that only evidence of prior crimes, not subsequent crimes, may be admitted to rebut an entrapment defense, denied the motion. However, the court stated that it might...

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