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Opinions in Minnesota that cite State v. Danh, 516 N.W.2d 539.
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State of Minnesota v. Alfredo Torrez
Minn. 2026
We are particularly concerned about potential coercion when a defendant enters into a contingent plea agreement—a special type of plea agreement in which a defendant pleads guilty in exchange for leniency for a third party.4
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2026
d 539, 541, 544 (Minn. 1994) (reasoning that state was prejudiced by having released numerous witnesses from subpoena).
- State of Minnesota v. Sharmark Hussein Jama Minn. Ct. App. 2025
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State of Minnesota v. Sharmark Hussein Jama
Minn. Ct. App. 2025
To determine whether a plea was voluntary, courts must consider “all of the relevant circumstances surrounding it.” (quotation omitted).
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2025
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2025
“Findings of fact are not clearly erroneous if there is reasonable evidence to support them.”
- Nathan Wesley McDonald v. State of Minnesota Minn. Ct. App. 2024
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Nathan Wesley McDonald v. State of Minnesota
Minn. Ct. App. 2024
McDonald’s plea agreement was not a “package deal.” A “package deal” is a “contingent plea agreement involving more lenient sentences for [the pleading defendant’s] co-defendants.”
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2023
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Stephen Dontrail Thornton, petitioner, Appellant,
Minn. Ct. App. 2022
(reviewing questions of fact regarding validity of a plea for clear error); (noting that appellate courts do not make credibility determinations), aff’d on other grounds sub nom.
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2022
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2022
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2021
problematic because Mr. Bacon’s guilty plea was induced by the state’s promise to dismiss a charge against his girlfriend.” The Minnesota Supreme Court has recognized plea agreements with a contingent or “package deal” are not “per se invalid” but “are generally considered ‘dangerous because of the risk of coercion.’” (
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2021
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2021
State v. Danh , d 539, 544 (Minn. 1994) (quotation omitted).
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2020
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2020
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2019
d 539, 544 (Minn. 1994).
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2019
d 539, 544 (Minn. 1994).
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2018
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2018
The “involuntariness of a guilty plea constitutes such a manifest injustice as to entitle a defendant to withdraw his plea.” ( quotation omitted).
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2018
Factual determinations are not clearly erroneous “if there is reasonable evidence to support them.”
- David Walt Studanski, petitioner, Appellant, Minn. Ct. App. 2018
- Wheeler v. State 909 N.W.2d 558 Minn. 2018
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Wheeler v. State
909 N.W.2d 558
Minn. 2018
State v. Danh , , 544 (Minn. 1994).
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2018
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2017
- Michael Dejaris Denson, petitioner, Appellant, Minn. Ct. App. 2017
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2017
- State v. Ellis-Strong 899 N.W.2d 531 Minn. Ct. App. 2017
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State v. Ellis-Strong
899 N.W.2d 531
Minn. Ct. App. 2017
(remanding for a postcon-viction hearing where record was insufficient to determine whether guilty plea was involuntary, requiring plea withdrawal).
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Lester Leander Wiechmann, petitioner, Appellant,
Minn. Ct. App. 2017
Whether a plea is voluntary is determined by “considering all of the relevant circumstances surrounding it.” (quotation omitted).
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2017
While “package deal” plea agreements, such as the one agreed to by Boos, are not “per se invalid,” they are “fraught with danger.” State v. Danh
- State of Minnesota v. Arthur Anthony Torgesen Minn. Ct. App. 2017
- State of Minnesota v. Arthur Anthony Torgesen Minn. Ct. App. 2017
- Jason Donald Matakis v. State of Minnesota Minn. Ct. App. 2017
- Jason Donald Matakis v. State of Minnesota Minn. Ct. App. 2017
- State of Minnesota v. Abass Warsame Mumin Minn. Ct. App. 2016
- State of Minnesota v. Abass Warsame Mumin Minn. Ct. App. 2016
- Jesse Lee Paskey v. State of Minnesota Minn. Ct. App. 2016
- Jesse Lee Paskey v. State of Minnesota Minn. Ct. App. 2016
- Jonathan Nicholas Turner v. State of Minnesota Minn. Ct. App. 2016
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Jonathan Nicholas Turner v. State of Minnesota
Minn. Ct. App. 2016
(citing Brady v. United States, 397 U.S. 742, 749, 90 S. Ct. 1463, 1469 (1970)).
- State of Minnesota v. Matthew Joseph Knebel Minn. Ct. App. 2015
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State of Minnesota v. Matthew Joseph Knebel
Minn. Ct. App. 2015
d 539, 542 (Minn. 1994).
- State of Minnesota v. Thomas Joseph McManus Minn. Ct. App. 2014
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State of Minnesota v. Thomas Joseph McManus
Minn. Ct. App. 2014
d 539, 544 (Minn. 1994).
- State of Minnesota v. Green Isiah Kelly, Jr. Minn. Ct. App. 2014
- State of Minnesota v. Green Isiah Kelly, Jr. Minn. Ct. App. 2014
- State of Minnesota v. Mohammed Mohammed Ali Minn. Ct. App. 2014