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STATE v. ERRINGTON

No. 81-289.

310 N.W.2d 681 (1981)

STATE of Minnesota, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Douglas R. ERRINGTON, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

October 6, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., and Erica Jacobson, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Bernard E. Borene, City Atty., Northfield, for appellant.

Hvistendahl & Moersch and David Hvistendahl, Northfield, for respondent.

Paul Onkka, Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Carver, Phyllis Gelman, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, New York City, Barbara J. Johnson, Local Counsel, St. Paul, for Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women; Aviva Futorian, Women's Law Project of the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

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

SHERAN, Chief Justice.

This is a discretionary appeal, pursuant to Minn.R.Crim.P. 29.03, from an order of a three-judge district court panel affirming an order of the county court which dismissed a prosecution of defendant on three contempt charges based on his alleged violations of protective orders issued under the Domestic Abuse Act, Minn.Stat. § 518B (1980). The dismissals were based on the county court's conclusion...

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