STATE v. CARTER

No. CX-95-1368.

569 N.W.2d 169 (1997)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Wayne Thomas CARTER, petitioner, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

September 11, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott Swanson, Assistant State Public Defender, Minneapolis, for Appellant.

Hubert H. Humphrey III, Attorney General, St. Paul, James C. Backstrom, Dakota County Attorney by Phillip D. Prokopowicz, Assistant Dakota County Attorney, Hastings, for Respondent.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


OPINION

TOMLJANOVICH, Justice.

By looking through the gaps in the closed blinds covering a window, a police officer observed the appellant, Wayne Thomas Carter, as he engaged in a drug-packaging operation with two other persons, one of whom was the leaseholder of the apartment. The district court held that Carter, who was an out-of-state visitor, did not present any evidence to establish his standing to contest the legality of the observation. The court...

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