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Opinions in Minnesota that cite State of Minnesota v. Jimmy Dawayne Lester, 874 N.W.2d 768.
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State of Minnesota, Appellant,
Minn. Ct. App. 2026
“Probable cause is an objective inquiry that depends on the totality of the circumstances in each case.”
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Daud Dayib Gamadid, petitioner, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2026
“Probable cause is an objective inquiry that depends on the totality of the circumstances in each case,” including the “reasonable inferences that [law enforcement] officers draw from facts, based on their training and experience .”
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Donald Charles Ancke, III, petitioner, Appellant,
Minn. Ct. App. 2026
(quotations and citations omitted).
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2026
“Probable cause is an objective inquiry that depends on the totality of the circumstances in each case.”
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2026
d 768, 771 (Minn. 2016) (“We review de novo a trial court’s determination of probable cause as it relates to a warrantless search.”).
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2026
When assessing whether probable cause existed, “the totality of the circumstances includes reasonable inferences that police officers draw from facts, based on their training and experience, because police officers may interpret circumstances differently than untrained persons.”
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2026
The totality of the circumstances that may be considered “includes reasonable inferences that police officers draw from facts, based on their training and experience.”
- State of Minnesota v. Ivan Contreras-Sanchez Minn. 2026
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2026
Under the automobile exception, “police may search a car without a warrant, including closed containers in that car, if there is probable cause to believe the search will result in a discovery of evidence or contraband.” State v. Lester , (quotation omitted).
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State of Minnesota, Respondent, vs. Jhonathan Jontae Robinson, Appellant.
Minn. Ct. App. 2025
The automobile exception provides that “the police may search a car without a warrant, including closed containers in that car, if there is probable cause to believe the search will result in a discovery of evidence or contraband.” State v. Lester , (quotation omitted).
- State of Minnesota v. Raenard Romalle Douglas Minn. 2025
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State of Minnesota v. Raenard Romalle Douglas
Minn. 2025
(“Probable cause is an objective inquiry that depends on the totality of the circumstances in each case.”); (“[T]he totality-of-the-circumstances analysis .
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2025
“Probable cause is an objective inquiry that depends on the totality of the circumstances in each case,” which “includes reasonable inferences that police officers draw from facts, based on their training and experience.”
- State of Minnesota v. Wendy Sue Whitcomb Minn. Ct. App. 2025
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State of Minnesota v. Wendy Sue Whitcomb
Minn. Ct. App. 2025
d 768, 771 (Minn. 2016).
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2025
“A search conducted without a warrant is unreasonable unless it satisfies one of the well- delineated exceptions to the warrant requirement.” (quotation omitted).
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2025
Although the totality of circumstances may include the “reasonable inferences that police officers draw from facts, based on their training and experience,” assessing probable cause is “an objective inquiry.”
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2025
The automobile exception authorizes police to search a vehicle without a warrant following a stop “if there is probable cause to believe the search will result in a discovery of evidence or contraband.” (quotation omitted).
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2025
“A search conducted without a warrant is unreasonable unless it satisfies one of the well- delineated exceptions to the warrant requirement.”
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2025
“A search conducted without a warrant is unreasonable unless it satisfies one of the well-delineated exceptions to the warrant requirement.” (quotation omitted).
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2025
“[T]he totality of the circumstances includes reasonable inferences that police officers draw from facts, based on their training and experience, because police officers may interpret circumstances differently than untrained persons.”
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2025
Law enforcement may conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle “if there is probable cause to believe the search will result in a discovery of evidence or contraband.” (quotation omitted).
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2024
15 when there are facts and circumstances sufficient to warrant a reasonably prudent person to believe that the vehicle contains contraband.” (quotation omitted).
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2024
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2024
The officer testified that he had been involved in thousands of traffic stops and roadside accidents and had “never seen a motorist attempt to conceal their person from [him] in that manner.” (noting that police officers may draw reasonable inferences “based on their training and experience”).
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State of Minnesota, Appellant,
Minn. Ct. App. 2024
One such exception permits a police officer to search a vehicle without a warrant if there is “probable cause to believe the search will result in a discovery of evidence or contraband.” State v. Lester , (quotation omitted).
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2024
“Probable cause is an objective inquiry that depends on the totality of the circumstances in each case.”
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2024
“It is a common-sense, nontechnical concept that involves the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent people, not legal technicians, act.” (quotations omitted).
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Jesse Bruce Jensen, petitioner, Appellant,
Minn. Ct. App. 2024
9 technicians, act.” (quotations omitted).
- State of Minnesota v. Cody Logan Fohrenkam Minn. Ct. App. 2024
- State of Minnesota v. Chaz Edwin Johnson Minn. Ct. App. 2024
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State of Minnesota v. Cody Logan Fohrenkam
Minn. Ct. App. 2024
5 Here, we note that the district court had no record from which it could have made any determination about the status or nature of Fohrenkam’s 5 See, 631 (Minn. 2018) (pat-frisk, community- caretaker, and exigent-circumstances exceptions); (automobile exception); (search incident to lawful arrest); -54 (Minn. 2003) (actual-authority-to-consent, apparent-authority-to-consent, plain-view, and inevitable- discovery exceptions).
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State of Minnesota v. Chaz Edwin Johnson
Minn. Ct. App. 2024
Under this exception, a police officer may search a vehicle without a warrant if there is “probable cause to believe the search will result in a discovery of evidence or contraband.” d 768, 771 (Minn. 2016) (quotation omitted).
- State of Minnesota v. Kevin Lee Anthony Minn. Ct. App. 2024
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State of Minnesota v. Kevin Lee Anthony
Minn. Ct. App. 2024
Whether probable cause exists is an objective inquiry that requires courts to consider the totality of the circumstances and facts, -72 (Minn. 2011), including “reasonable inferences that police officers draw from facts, based on their training and experience,”
- State of Minnesota v. Matthew Starnes Minn. Ct. App. 2024
- State of Minnesota v. Richard Chavez-Aguilar Minn. Ct. App. 2024
- State of Minnesota v. Richard Chavez-Aguilar Minn. Ct. App. 2024
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State of Minnesota v. Matthew Starnes
Minn. Ct. App. 2024
One exception to the warrant requirement is the “automobile exception,” under which a police officer may search a vehicle without a warrant, including closed containers in that vehicle, if there is “probable cause to believe the search will result in a discovery of evidence or contraband.” (quotations omitted).
- James Kevin Obowa, petitioner, Appellant, Minn. Ct. App. 2024
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2024
at 168-69 (), that must be particularized and individualized to the suspect
- State of Minnesota v. Jhonathan Jontae Robinson Minn. Ct. App. 2024
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State of Minnesota v. Jhonathan Jontae Robinson
Minn. Ct. App. 2024
Under the automobile exception to the warrant requirement, “the police may search a car without a warrant, including closed containers in that car, if there is probable cause to believe the search will result in a discovery of evidence or contraband.” (quotation omitted).
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2023
“[T]he totality of the circumstances includes reasonable inferences that police officers draw from facts, based on their training and experience.”
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State of Minnesota,
Minn. 2023
(“We review de novo a trial court’s determination of probable cause as it relates to a warrantless search”); (holding that when facts are not in dispute, this court reviews a suppression order de novo to determine whether police articulated
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2023
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2023
“A search conducted without a warrant is unreasonable unless it satisfies one of the well-delineated exceptions to the warrant requirement.” (quotation omitted).
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2023
“[T]he totality of the circumstances includes reasonable infe rences that police officers draw from facts, based on their training and experience, because police officers may interpret circumstances differently than untrained persons.” State v. Lester
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2023
The state defended the search of Lindekugel’s vehicle under the “automobile exception” to the warrant requirement.
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State of Minnesota,
Minn. 2023
Under the automobile exception, police may “search a car without a warrant, including closed containers in that car, if there is probable cause to believe the search will result in a discovery of eviden ce or contraband.” d 768, 771 (Minn. 2016) (citation omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted).