Minnesota Appellate Opinions

Published opinions of the Minnesota Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, collated from public records. 13 opinions matched.

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A25-0872 Minn. Ct. App. 2026-04-06 Reversed and remanded Mathew Paul Crow v. State of Minnesota
… tion component of a plea agreement when no aggravating circumstances justify a sentencing departure. Id. at 538-39. Because the conviction and sentencing components of a plea agreement are “interrelated,” the supreme court determined tha …
a251050 Minn. Ct. App. 2026-02-23 Reversed and remanded State of Minnesota v. Paul Lewis Mason
… State v. Rund, 1 We also note that there does not appear to be a sentencing departure report in the record, though the sentencing order notes that the sentence was a downward durational departure. …
a231711 Minn. Ct. App. 2024-10-14 Reversed and remanded State of Minnesota v. Kenneth Jagger Crawford
… district court had authority to grant his request for a downward-dispositional sentencing departure, based on the state’s assertion that, because it had not invoked the mandatory-minimum sentencing provision in the charging document, tha …
a231695 Minn. Ct. App. 2024-06-10 Reversed and remanded State of Minnesota v. Samantha Dana Schroeder
… 4 The same day as the hearing, the district court issued a sentencing departure report. 1 As mitigating factors related to the offense, the district court noted that Schroeder’s crime was “less onerous than usual.” As …
a231094 Minn. Ct. App. 2024-05-20 Reversed and remanded State of Minnesota v. Stonii Jream Allen
… ure request by misapplying the law. We agree. There are two types of sentencing departures, each serving different purposes. “A dispositional departure places the offender in a different setting than that called for by the pres …
a231010 Minn. Ct. App. 2024-02-26 Reversed and remanded State of Minnesota v. Eric Alan Gramentz
… t probationary conditions justified the departure, is insufficient to support a sentencing departure in the absence of a finding that Gramentz is particularly amenable to probation. 3 Gramentz cites two nonprecedential decisions in suppor …
a230386 Minn. Ct. App. 2023-12-11 Reversed and remanded State of Minnesota v. Ronald Wayne Taleronik
… nces apply to Taleronik’s conviction, pronouncing a consecutive sentence was a sentencing departure for which the district court provided no reason. When departing from the presumptive sentence, the district court “must disclose in …
A15-2037 Minn. Ct. App. 2017-02-13 Reversed and remanded State of Minnesota v. Jack Warren Nomeland
… ng “enhancement” and “aggravating” to describe factors that serve as basis for sentencing departure). As appellant argues, scenarios (1) and (3) exist here, and a resentencing hearing on remand would violate the prohibition on dou …
A16-1117 Minn. Ct. App. 2017-01-30 Reversed and remanded State of Minnesota v. Anthony Ra Hare
… etion by failing to find substantial and compelling circumstances to justify a sentencing departure, we reverse and remand for resentencing. FACTS Respondent Anthony Ra Hare pleaded guilty …
A16-607 Minn. Ct. App. 2016-12-05 Reversed and remanded State of Minnesota v. Braden Jay Olson
… termine whether there are aggravating factors that would support an aggravated sentencing departure. State v. Thompson, 720 N.W.2d 820, 827 (Minn. 2006). But a defendant must make a knowing, voluntary, and intelligent waiver that meets t …
A16-561 Minn. Ct. App. 2016-08-22 Reversed and remanded State of Minnesota v. Abigail Rae Trulson
… ubstantially less serious than the typical theft.2 Accordingly, we reverse the sentencing departure and remand to the district court for imposition of a guidelines sentence. 2 We acknowledge the district court’s motivation to give Tru …
A15-1177 Minn. Ct. App. 2016-08-01 Reversed and remanded State of Minnesota v. Armando DeLaCruz, Jr.
… the district court abused its discretion by failing to consider factors for a sentencing departure); State v. Mendoza, 638 N.W.2d 480, 484 (Minn. App. 2002) (“This 8 While Westlaw states that Le has been “abrogated,” Rubey does not e …
A16-21 Minn. Ct. App. 2016-06-27 Reversed and remanded State of Minnesota v. John Porter Jackson
… ial and compelling circumstances are present. Id. “If the reasons given [for a sentencing departure] are improper or inadequate and there is insufficient evidence of record to justify the departure, the departure will be reversed.” State …