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STATE v. PORTE

No. A12-1372.

832 N.W.2d 303 (2013)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Elvis Joko PORTE, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

June 24, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lori Swanson , Attorney General, St. Paul, MN; and Mark A. Ostrem , Olmsted County Attorney, James P. Spencer , Senior Assistant County Attorney, Rochester, MN, for respondent.

David W. Merchant , Chief Appellate Public Defender, Leslie J. Rosenberg , Assistant Public Defender, St. Paul, MN, for appellant.

Considered and decided by KIRK, Presiding Judge; JOHNSON, Chief Judge; and STONEBURNER, Judge.

OPINION

JOHNSON, Chief Judge.

A Rochester police officer found crack cocaine inside a van that Elvis Joko Porte was driving. An Olmsted County jury found Porte guilty of, among other things, first-degree and second-degree controlled-substance offenses. On appeal, Porte raises several issues. We conclude that the evidence is sufficient to support his controlled-substance convictions. But we conclude that the district court erred by giving a permissive-inference...

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