STATE v. GRUNIG

No. C0-01-1101.

660 N.W.2d 134 (2003)

STATE of Minnesota, Appellant, v. Brad GRUNIG, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

May 1, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mike Hatch, Attorney General, James B. Early, Asst. Attorney General, St. Paul, MN, James R. Olson, Brown County Attorney, New Ulm, MN, for Appellant.

Brad W. Colbert, Asst. Public Defender, St. Paul, MN, for Respondent.

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


OPINION

MEYER, Justice.

This appeal presents a discrete question of law—whether the state waived issues of a caretaker's actual or apparent authority to consent to a search assuming the state did not argue these issues to the district court and the issues were raised for the first time on appeal. The court of appeals held that the state waived them. We reverse.

Relatively few facts are necessary to analyze the issues presented in this case...

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