STATE v. COMPTON

Nos. 50950, 51067.

293 N.W.2d 372 (1980)

STATE of Minnesota, Appellant, v. Nate Baxter COMPTON, Respondent. STATE of Minnesota, Plaintiff, v. Eugene Elmer COMPTON, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

May 20, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Thomas L. Fabel, Deputy Atty. Gen., and Richard D. Hodsdon, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Michael Milligan, County Atty., Walker, for appellant.

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, Robert D. Goodell and Ronald Haskvitz, Asst. Public Defenders, Minneapolis, Jon Maturi, Grand Rapids, for Eugene Elmer Compton.

Paul Kief, Public Defender, Bemidji, for Nate Baxter Compton.

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


SHERAN, Chief Justice.

These pretrial criminal appeals have been combined because the two prosecutions for concealing stolen property arose from the same incident and involve a similarity of facts and a relationship of issues. One (State v. Nate Baxter Compton, No. 50950) is an appeal by the state pursuant to R. 29.03, subd. 1, R.Crim.P., from an order of the district court suppressing evidence on Fourth Amendment grounds and dismissing the prosecution. The...

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