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IN RE HOPE COALITION

A21-0880.

977 N.W.2d 651 (2022)

IN RE HOPE COALITION, Petitioner. State of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Kevin Maynard Conrad, Respondent, Hope Coalition, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

Filed: July 13, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rana S. Alexander , Standpoint, Saint Paul, Minnesota; and Katherine S. Barrett Wiik , Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for appellant.

Keith Ellison , Attorney General, Saint Paul, Minnesota; and Kerrie Kelly , Wabasha County Attorney, Wabasha, Minnesota, for respondent State of Minnesota.

Jennifer M. Shabel and Paul H. Grinde , Grinde & Dicke Law Firm P.A., Rochester, Minnesota, for respondent Kevin Maynard Conrad.

Robert Small , Executive Director, and Kelly O'Neill Moller and Adam E. Petras , Assistant Hennepin County Attorneys, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for amicus curiae Minnesota County Attorneys Association.

Michael P. Boulette , O. Joseph Balthazor, Jr. , and Abby N. Sunberg , Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for amici curiae Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Violence Free Minnesota, the Battered Women's Justice Project, and the National Crime Victim Law Institute.

OPINION

This case concerns how sexual assault counselors' statutory privilege under Minnesota Statutes section 595.02, subdivision 1(k) (2020), interacts with a criminal defendant's interests in a fair trial. Although appellant Hope Coalition invoked the sexual-assault-counselor privilege under section 595.02, subdivision...

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