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Opinions in Minnesota that cite State v. Heiges, 806 N.W.2d 1.
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2024
- State of Minnesota v. Sheldon James Thompson Minn. 2024
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State of Minnesota v. Sheldon James Thompson
Minn. 2024
abrogated on other grounds, –14 (Minn. 2021) (clarifying that Minn. Stat. § 634.03 (2020) does not include a trustworthiness standard).
- Minn. 2022
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State of Minnesota,
Minn. 2021
See, (concluding “the State has met its burden of producing corroborating evidence” without analyzing the language of Minn. Stat. § 634.03); –14 (Minn. 2011) (same); State v. McLarne, 150 N.W.
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2020
Secti on 634.03 has a dual fu nction: “it discourages coercively acquired confessions and requires that ad missions and confessions be reliable.”
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2020
- Kimberly Brinkman, Appellant, Minn. Ct. App. 2018
- State v. Janecek 903 N.W.2d 426 Minn. Ct. App. 2017
- State v. Janecek 903 N.W.2d 426 Minn. Ct. App. 2017
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2017
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2017
“ The reviewing court must assume the jury believed the state’s witnesses and disbelieved any evidence to the contrary.” (quotation omitted).
- State v. Larsen 901 N.W.2d 433 Minn. Ct. App. 2017
- State v. Larsen 901 N.W.2d 433 Minn. Ct. App. 2017
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2017
- State of Minnesota v. Chris Harry McIntosh Minn. Ct. App. 2017
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State of Minnesota v. Chris Harry McIntosh
Minn. Ct. App. 2017
However, a prosecutor can rely on confession evidence in conjunction with other evidence, and the “evidence needed to corroborate a confession to police is not required to address every element of the charged offense.” aff’d
- State of Minnesota v. Xa Vang Minn. Ct. App. 2016
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State of Minnesota v. Xa Vang
Minn. Ct. App. 2016
We review jury instructions “in their entirety to determine whether they fairly and adequately explained the law of the case.” aff’d (quotation omitted); review denied (Minn. Mar.
- State of Minnesota v. Cheng Pao Vue Minn. Ct. App. 2016
- State of Minnesota v. Cheng Pao Vue Minn. Ct. App. 2016
- Ali M. Shire v. Rosemount, Inc., Self-Insured/Berkley Risk Administrators Company, LLC, Relators, and Twin Cities Orthopedics, P.A., Crosstown … 875 N.W.2d 289 Minn. 2016
- State of Minnesota v. Trevon Fuller Minn. Ct. App. 2015
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State of Minnesota v. Trevon Fuller
Minn. Ct. App. 2015
Instead, Minn. Stat. § 634.03 only requires independent evidence of attending facts or circumstances from which the jury may infer the trustworthiness of the confession.” (quotations and citations omitted).
- State of Minnesota v. Joshua Lee Littlewolf Minn. Ct. App. 2015
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State of Minnesota v. Joshua Lee Littlewolf
Minn. Ct. App. 2015
(concluding that trustworthy confession was 9 sufficient to support conviction) (citing Smith v. United States, 348 U.S. 147, 156, 75 S. Ct. 194, 199 (1954)), aff’d
- State of Minnesota v. David Arthur LaRose Minn. Ct. App. 2015
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State of Minnesota v. David Arthur LaRose
Minn. Ct. App. 2015
.”); (concluding that the term “‘confession’ in section 634.03 is broad enough to cover all acknowledgments of guilt made after a crime is committed, whether the acknowledgement is made to a friend, acquaintance, or to the police”).
- State of Minnesota v. Jason Lonny Spillum Minn. Ct. App. 2014
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State of Minnesota v. Jason Lonny Spillum
Minn. Ct. App. 2014
-14 (Minn. 2011) (finding adequate corroborating evidence of the defendant’s statements that she had been pregnant; she had tried to end her pregnancy; she planned to kill the baby after delivery; she delivered the baby in the bathtub; the baby’s father threatened to hurt her, as he had in the past, if she did
- Jacky L. Larson v. The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, CMInformation Specialists, Inc. 855 N.W.2d 293 Minn. 2014
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Jacky L. Larson v. The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, CMInformation Specialists, Inc.
855 N.W.2d 293
Minn. 2014
Cloud, and we often look to dictionary definitions to determine the plain meanings of words
- State of Minnesota v. Jeremy Paul Haas Minn. Ct. App. 2014
- State of Minnesota v. Jeremy Paul Haas Minn. Ct. App. 2014
- State of Minnesota v. Anthony Otto Boyum Minn. Ct. App. 2014
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State of Minnesota v. Anthony Otto Boyum
Minn. Ct. App. 2014
3 Section 634.03 provides, in relevant part, that “[a] confession of the defendant shall not be sufficient to warrant conviction without evidence that the offense charged has been committed.” For purposes of this statute, “confession” means “a statement made after the commission of the offense in which the defendant implicitly or explicitly acknowledges guilt.”
- Hoekstra v. Commissioner of Public Safety 839 N.W.2d 536 Minn. Ct. App. 2013
- Hoekstra v. Commissioner of Public Safety 839 N.W.2d 536 Minn. Ct. App. 2013
- Dereje v. State 837 N.W.2d 714 Minn. 2013
- Dereje v. State 837 N.W.2d 714 Minn. 2013
- State v. Weyaus 836 N.W.2d 579 Minn. Ct. App. 2013
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State v. Weyaus
836 N.W.2d 579
Minn. Ct. App. 2013
An appellate court, when interpreting a statute, must apply its unambiguous plain meaning, and, in doing so, may consider “dictionary definitions,” and “Black’s Law Dictionary,” Goodman v. Best Buy, Inc., , 759 n. 2 (Minn.2010) ( (using Black’s Law Dictionary to determine the meaning of “product”)).
- State v. Mayl 836 N.W.2d 368 Minn. Ct. App. 2013
- State v. Mayl 836 N.W.2d 368 Minn. Ct. App. 2013
- State v. Castillo-Alvarez 820 N.W.2d 601 Minn. Ct. App. 2012
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State v. Castillo-Alvarez
820 N.W.2d 601
Minn. Ct. App. 2012
(concluding that legislative omission does not necessarily render a statute ambiguous and stating that “[i]n construing statutes, we cannot supply that which the Legislature purposely omits or inadvertently overlooks”).
- State v. Hansen 805 N.W.2d 915 Minn. Ct. App. 2011
- State v. Hansen 805 N.W.2d 915 Minn. Ct. App. 2011