STATE v. FRISINGER

No. C7-91-458.

484 N.W.2d 27 (1992)

STATE of Minnesota, petitioner, Appellant, v. Virginia FRISINGER, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

May 1, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., Robert A. Stanich, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Steven E. McCullough, Asst. Moorhead City Atty., Ohnstad Twichell, P.C., West Fargo, N.D., for appellant.

Peter Eric Karlsson, Moorhead, for respondent.

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


SIMONETT, Justice.

In its decision the court of appeals granted the defendant a new trial because, in its view, the trial court committed plain error of a prejudicial nature in failing to give, sua sponte, cautionary instructions on the appropriate use by the jury of other-crime evidence admitted against defendant pursuant to Minn.R.Evid. 404(b). State v. Frisinger, 478 N.W.2d 538 (Minn.App.1991). We hold that the trial court...

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