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STATE v. NORDSTROM

No. C0-82-1069.

331 N.W.2d 901 (1983)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Paul Richard NORDSTROM, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

March 25, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'Brien, Ehrick, Wolf, Deaner & Downing and Charles F. Richards, Rochester, for appellant.

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., and Norman B. Coleman, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Douglas J. Gregor, Asst. Rochester City Atty., Rochester, for respondent.

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, and Kathy King, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, amicus curiae.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.

WAHL, Justice.

The legislature, in 1982, enacted certain amendments to the DWI statute, Minn.Stat. § 169.121 (1982), which authorize the arrest of DWI suspects on probable cause and convert misdemeanor DWI offenses to gross misdemeanor DWI offenses in certain cases.1 In this case, defendant having challenged those provisions, the Olmsted County District Court has certified to this court two questions as follows:

1. Does 1982...

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