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CARRADINE v. STATE

No. C5-92-1070.

511 N.W.2d 733 (1994)

Robert Reed CARRADINE, Respondent, v. STATE of Minnesota, et al., Petitioner, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

February 4, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., Peter M. Ackerberg, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for appellants.

Peter H. Grills, O'Neill, Burke, O'Neill, Leonard & O'Brien, Ltd., St. Paul, for respondent.

Mark R. Anfinson, Lake Calhoun Professional Bldg., Minneapolis, for amicus curiae, MN Newspaper Assoc.

Heard, considered, and decided by the court en banc.

COYNE, Justice.

We agreed to review this case, which has not yet been tried, in order to address whether a state trooper enjoys an absolute privilege that affords him or her absolute immunity from a defamation suit for anything said in preparing an arrest report or in responding to press inquiries about the arrest.1

On July 9, 1987, plaintiff, Robert Reed Carradine, was stopped and arrested by a state trooper, defendant Patrick...

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