| A25-0872 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2026-04-06 |
Reversed and remanded
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Mathew Paul Crow v. State of Minnesota
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… 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 …
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| A24-0952 |
Minn. |
2026-04-01 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Shawn Michael Tillman
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… Lastly, Tillman argues that the district court improperly imposed an upward sentencing departure when it sentenced him to life without the possibility of release under 42 Minn. Stat. § 60 …
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| a240539 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2026-03-09 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Lashun Miller
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| a251050 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2026-02-23 |
Reversed and remanded
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State of Minnesota v. Paul Lewis Mason
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… 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. …
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| a241128 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2026-01-26 |
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded
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State of Minnesota v. Romaine Anthony Reid
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… 2 filed a Blakely motion seeking an upward aggravated sentencing departure based on the alleged aggravating factor of multiple forms of penetration. 1 By February 23, 2023, when Reid appeared for a domesti …
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| a250234 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2026-01-05 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. DeAngelo Cortez Ransom
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| a250550 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2025-12-29 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Brooke Marie Brogaard
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… entered into a plea agreement and jointly recommended a downward dispositional sentencing departure, which would stay execution of appellant’s 125-month prison sentence for up to five years with supervised probation. The district court a …
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| a240916 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2025-11-17 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Bryant Wayne Paige
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… on presented to it, including the parties’ arguments, appellant’s motion for a sentencing departure, the PSI, and the psychosexual evaluation. The district court determined that there were no substantial or compelling circumstances that …
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| a241747 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2025-09-02 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Isaac Gutierrez
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… 18). In Dentz, we reversed the district court’s grant of a downward durational sentencing departure for a conviction of soliciting a minor to engage in prostitution. Id. at 99. In granting the departure, the district court relied on Dentz …
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| a241771 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2025-09-02 |
Affirmed
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Christopher Lee Konakowitz v. State of Minnesota
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… herefore, Minn. Stat. § 244.10, subd. 5a(b), “allows a court to base an upward sentencing departure on any aggravating factor, even if the aggravating factor relates, or arises in connection with another offense committed during the same …
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| a241111 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2025-05-19 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Matthew Michael Lewis
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… ld its side of the agreement by remaining silent during Lewis’s argument for a sentencing departure, the district court made no promises to Lewis in the plea agreement or at the plea hearing, and the record demonstrates that Lewis knew a …
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| A240930 |
Minn. |
2025-04-30 |
Considered and decided by the court without oral argument
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Leroy Roderick Paul, Appellant, vs. State of Minnesota, Respondent
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… r investigation. The federal prosecutor agreed to file a motion for a downward sentencing departure if B.H. provided substantial assistance, but the agreement left the specific length of the sentence to the federal district court judge’s …
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| a240830 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2025-04-28 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Cass Howard Ellingboe
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… earm, with the understanding that he could argue for a downward- dispositional sentencing departure. Ellingboe also submitted a signed plea petition. In exchange for his plea, the state dismissed the remaining charges. In setting …
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| a231711 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-10-14 |
Reversed and remanded
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State of Minnesota v. Kenneth Jagger Crawford
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… 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 …
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| a231766 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-08-26 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Kevin Kris Christensen
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… p. 2011) (quotation omitted). We review a district court’s denial of a sentencing departure for an abuse of discretion. State v. Solberg, 882 N.W.2d 618, 623 (Minn. 2016). And an appellate court “will not ordinarily interfere wit …
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| a231525 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-06-10 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Jill Marie Zetterwall
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… court abused its discretion in denying her motion for a downward dispositional sentencing departure. Because we discern no abuse of discretion by the district court in imposing the presumptive sentence, we affirm. …
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| a230953 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-06-10 |
We affirm
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State of Minnesota v. Evan James Fasthorse
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… 2 state proved the aggravating factor it claimed supports a sentencing departure and to, instead, have the district court make this determination. 2 At Fasthorse’s Blakely trial, the district court admitted sev …
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| a231695 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-06-10 |
Reversed and remanded
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State of Minnesota v. Samantha Dana Schroeder
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… 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 …
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| a230793 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-05-28 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Marvel Galvaston Williams
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… ilty pleas, and alternatively, by denying his motion for a downward durational sentencing departure for the third-degree murder offense. Because the district court did not err in denying Williams’s plea- withdrawal motion or abuse its di …
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| a231094 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-05-20 |
Reversed and remanded
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State of Minnesota v. Stonii Jream Allen
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… 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 …
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| a231734 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-05-20 |
We affirm
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Michael James Rye v. State of Minnesota
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… tration term was illegal, (8) he should have received a downward dispositional sentencing departure, and (9) three months were erroneously added to his sentence. In October 2021, the postconviction court denied Rye’s petition with …
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| a230923 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-05-13 |
We affirm
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State of Minnesota v. Colleen Purificacion Larson
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… court abused its discretion in denying her motion for a downward dispositional sentencing departure because she demonstrated that she was particularly amenable to supervision and was unduly influenced by her codefendant. We affirm. …
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| a230897 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-05-13 |
We affirm
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State of Minnesota v. Jesse James Niesen
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… 3 Niesen moved for a downward dispositional sentencing departure, proposing that he would complete chemical-dependency and mental-health treatment while on probation. The district court reviewed the inf …
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| a230732 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-05-06 |
We affirm
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State of Minnesota v. Dylan Thomas Peterson
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… 7. However, Peterson does not point to legal authority that equates an upward sentencing departure with punishing a defendant twice for the same offense. Because Peterson failed to cite any legal authority to support his argument, he ina …
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| a230692 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-05-06 |
We affirm
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State of Minnesota v. John Chester Hageman, Jr.
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… ines 2.D.1 (Supp. 2021). The district court has discretion to impose an upward sentencing departure when aggravating circumstances are present, and we review the district court’s decision for an abuse of that discretion. State v. Meyers, …
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| a230922 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-04-08 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Nicholas John Reinert
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… right to a jury trial and pleaded guilty but reserved the right to argue for a sentencing departure. At appellant’s request, the district court continued his sentencing hearing until February 15, 2023, to allow him time to get an updated …
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| a231152 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-04-08 |
Affirmed
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Alan Joseph Zakrajshek v. State of Minnesota
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… have any factual objections to it. Zakrajshek’s attorney argued for a downward sentencing departure and requested 90 months’ imprisonment instead of 144 months. Zakrajshek addressed the district court at sentencing. He did not indicate t …
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| a230271 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-03-25 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Henry Lee Brown
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… inaccurate, and (3) the district court abused its discretion by denying him a sentencing departure. We affirm. FACTS In March 2021, respondent State of Minnesota charged appellant Henry L …
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| a230605 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-03-18 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Brandon Lee Berry
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… ded guilty. Berry moved the district court for a downward dispositional sentencing departure and supported his motion with a memorandum that included research on brain development in males under 25 years old. Berry relied mostly o …
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| a231270 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-03-11 |
Affirmed
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Michael Walton Hinton v. State of Minnesota
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… fit of his plea bargain. We are not persuaded. Hinton is correct that a sentencing departure “cannot be based on uncharged or dismissed offenses.” Jones, 745 N.W.2d at 849. But “it is generally proper for the court to consider the …
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| A220105 |
Minn. |
2024-03-06 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Curtis Lablanche Vanengen
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… strict court did not abuse its discretion when it ordered an upward durational sentencing departure for third-degree criminal sexual conduct against a physically helpless person, in violation of Minnesota Statutes section 609.344, subdivi …
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| a230736 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-03-04 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Dennis John Edmondson
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… .W.2d 319, 329 (Minn. App. 2015) (affirming district court’s upward durational sentencing departure 6 and acknowledging that district court considered mitigating factors that included appel …
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| a231010 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-02-26 |
Reversed and remanded
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State of Minnesota v. Eric Alan Gramentz
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… 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 …
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| a230382 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-02-05 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Jason Cole Hence
|
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… court abused its discretion in denying his motion for a downward dispositional sentencing departure because the district court failed to meaningfully consider whether appellant’s youth justified such a departure. We affirm. …
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| a230388 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-01-16 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Terrick Anthony Ruffin
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… appellant challenges the district court’s denial of his motion for a downward sentencing departure and calculation of custody credit. Because the district court did not abuse its discretion in imposing the presumptive sentence and prope …
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| a221710 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2024-01-16 |
Affirmed
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A23-0163 Jose Armando Padilla v. State of Minnesota
|
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… t court should have used its equitable authority to grant appellant a downward sentencing departure. Id. By contrast, Padilla asked the district court to correct his sentence under rule 27.03, subdivision 9. When determining whether to c …
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| a230383 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2023-12-18 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Damon Marvin Henning, Jr.
|
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… ncing discretion even if it determines that factors exist that might support a sentencing departure. See State v. Walker, 913 N.W.2d 463, 468-69 (Minn. App. 2018) (concluding that a district court did not abuse its discretion in …
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| a230058 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2023-12-18 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Daniel John Wyatt
|
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… he failed to identify any substantial and compelling circumstance warranting a sentencing departure, we affirm. FACTS Hennepin County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Daniel Wyatt in March 2022, …
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| a230386 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2023-12-11 |
Reversed and remanded
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State of Minnesota v. Ronald Wayne Taleronik
|
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… 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 …
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| a230134 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2023-12-04 |
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded
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State of Minnesota v. Devin Lee Arola Johnson
|
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… by imposing consecutive stayed prison sentences without stating reasons for a sentencing departure. Therefore, we affirm Arola Johnson’s convictions but reverse the imposition of consecutive stayed prison sentences and remand for imposi …
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| a230122 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2023-12-04 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Joseph John Hall
|
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… ion jury instruction and its denial of his motion for a downward dispositional sentencing departure. Because Hall was not prejudiced by the district court’s decision not to give a voluntary-intoxication jury instruction, and the district …
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| a230167 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2023-11-13 |
Affirmed
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State of Minnesota v. Catherine Ann Skavlem-Short
|
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… court abused its discretion by denying her motion for a downward dispositional sentencing departure. We affirm. FACTS Respondent State of Minnesota charged appellant Catherine Ann Skavlem-S …
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| A18-0994 |
Minn. |
2019-04-03 |
Denied
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Evans v. State
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| A16-0220 |
Minn. |
2018-12-05 |
Denied
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Ries v. State
|
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… trict court imposed a 48-month prison sentence, which was a downward durational sentencing departure. In August 2015, Ries filed a timely petition for postconviction relief, challenging the district court's denial of his motion to suppress …
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| A17-1915 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2018-06-11 |
Stayed
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State v. Greenough
|
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… , arguing that the imposition and execution of his sentence was an unauthorized sentencing departure. The district court denied appellant's motion to correct his sentence, in part, because it found that appellant was "sentenced" under the M …
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| A15-1417 |
Minn. |
2017-10-04 |
Denied
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State v. Parker
|
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… that the district court abused its discretion by imposing an upward durational sentencing departure. The court of appeals affirmed the conviction, but reversed the sentence and remanded for resentencing. We affirm the court of appeals’ dec …
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| A15-1247; A15-1255 |
Minn. |
2017-08-16 |
Granted
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State v. Stempfley
|
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… responsible” for the acts of their codefendants, and a categorical rule that a sentencing departure may rest solely on an offender’s status as an accomplice would be inconsistent with that principle. State v. Campbell, 367 N.W.2d 454, 461 …
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| A16-0133 |
Minn. |
2017-06-07 |
Granted
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State v. Rund
|
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… nt officers. The district court granted Rund’s motion for a downward durational sentencing departure. A divided panel of the court of appeals affirmed the departure. 1 Appellant State of Minnesota filed a petition for review, which we grant …
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| A15-2037 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2017-02-13 |
Reversed and remanded
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State of Minnesota v. Jack Warren Nomeland
|
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… 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 …
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| A16-1117 |
Minn. Ct. App. |
2017-01-30 |
Reversed and remanded
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State of Minnesota v. Anthony Ra Hare
|
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… 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 …
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