STATE v. WARSAME

No. A05-488.

701 N.W.2d 305 (2005)

STATE of Minnesota, Appellant, v. Farah Abshir WARSAME, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

August 9, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mike Hatch, Attorney General, St. Paul, MN; and Amy Klobuchar, Hennepin County Attorney, Thomas A. Weist, Assistant County Attorney, Minneapolis, MN, for appellant.

Mark D. Nyvold, Richard J. Malacko, St. Paul, MN, for respondent.

Considered and decided by MINGE, Presiding Judge; WILLIS, Judge; and STONEBURNER, Judge.


OPINION

STONEBURNER, Judge.

The state appeals the district court's pretrial ruling that the victim's statements to a police officer describing how appellant threatened her and inflicted her obviously fresh injuries were testimonial and therefore inadmissible at trial under Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 124 S.Ct. 1354, 158 L.Ed.2d 177 (2004). Because we conclude...

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