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STATE v. LOPEZ

Nos. A08-100, A08-133.

778 N.W.2d 700 (2010)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. José Carlos LOPEZ, Appellant. State of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Gabriel Lopez, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

February 11, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lori Swanson, Attorney General, St. Paul, MN; and Charles Rasmussen, Todd County Attorney, Long Prairie, MN, for respondent.

Joel O'Malley, Special Assistant State Public Defender, Minneapolis, MN, for appellant José Carlos Lopez.

Davi E. Axelson, Assistant State Public Defender, St. Paul, MN, for appellant Gabriel Lopez.

OPINION

MAGNUSON, Chief Justice.

Gabriel Lopez and José Carlos Lopez1 are brothers who sold methamphetamine to a confidential informant in April 2006. Later that month, the brothers allegedly held the confidential informant and another individual hostage in the Lopez family garage for about 40 minutes until the informant arranged to pay $300 that he owed on the earlier drug transaction. Both Lopez brothers were charged with...

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