STATE v. FORCIER

No. C5-87-468.

420 N.W.2d 884 (1988)

STATE of Minnesota, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Andrew Joseph FORCIER, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

Rehearing Denied April 14, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., Paul P. Kempainen, Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Michael Junge, McLeod Co. Atty., Glencoe, for appellant.

C. Paul Jones, State Public Defender, Elizabeth Davis, Minneapolis, for respondent.

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


AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

The main questions in this criminal appeal are whether any error in admitting defendant's exculpatory statement during the state's case-in-chief is subject to harmless error analysis and, if so, whether the error was indeed harmless. Answering both questions affirmatively, we reverse the decision of the court of appeals and reinstate the judgment of conviction.

Defendant, age 21, and the complainant, age 23, are two young men who, during...

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