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STATE v. RUSSELL

No. C6-82-1111.

343 N.W.2d 36 (1984)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Tommy E. RUSSELL, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

January 27, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Kennedy, Hennepin County Public Defender, Franklin J. Knoll, Ellen Baudler, Peter Cahill, Asst. Public Defenders, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Thomas L. Johnson, Hennepin County Atty., Minneapolis, for respondent.

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

WAHL, Justice.

Defendant, who is black, was arrested and charged with theft in violation of Minn. Stat. §§ 609.52, subds. 1, 2(1), 3(2), and 609.05 (1982). The charge was based on evidence that defendant participated in the sale of stolen goods on January 28, 1982, to a black undercover officer who was running a so-called "sting operation" out of a Bloomington townhouse. Defendant and a number of other defendants whose charges also arose out of the sting...

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