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This archive includes orders decided by the Court of Appeals at its Special-Term Session, the weekly calendar where a panel of three Court of Appeals judges considers jurisdictional and procedural matters. This archive does not include orders before January 1, 2023 or orders that were not decided at Special Term. Orders not included in this archive may be accessed via the Minnesota Appellate Courts’ public access system, PMACS.
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A law-enforcement officer’s uncertainty about the validity of a displayed temporary vehicle registration tag due to the inability to read the tag does not on its own amount to reasonable, articulable suspicion of criminal activity sufficient to justify an investigatory vehicle stop. Affirmed.
Citation: 18 N.W.3d 540
Date:
March
03, 2025
appeal from a postconviction order denying motion to withdraw plea of guilty to second-degree controlled-substance crime
Date:
March
05, 2002
A district court does not have subject-matter jurisdiction under Minn. Stat. § 171.19 (2022) to review the extension of a driver’s license-revocation period. Affirmed.
Citation: 17 N.W.3d 155
Date:
January
21, 2025
challenges indeterminate commitment as a sexual psychopathic personality and a sexually dangerous person
Date:
October
12, 2004
1. A district court has jurisdiction to rule on a motion seeking to correct an alleged unlawful sentence under Minn. R. Crim. P. 27.03, subd. 9 that would change the classification of an offense from a felony to a gross misdemeanor even after the sentence has expired. 2. Under Minn. Stat. § 152.025, subd. 4(a) (2016), a single syringe does not constitute "one dosage unit:" of a controlled substance as a matter of law; rather, the defendant must prove, as a factual matter, that the syringe constitutes "one dosage unit."
Citation: 16 N.W.3d 828
Date:
January
21, 2025
challenge motion for dismissal
Date:
October
12, 2004
In this direct appeal from the judgment of conviction for gross-misdemeanor driving while impaired (DWI)-test refusal, appellant argues there was insufficient evidence to sustain her conviction because the state failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that law enforcement had probable cause to believe that she was under the influence of alcohol while driving. We affirm.
Date:
June
09, 2025
Affirm the conviction and remand to consider the application, if any, of Blakely v. Washington to appellant's sentence.
Date:
October
12, 2004
A criminal defendant does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in emails knowingly sent to a student’s school-owned email account and received on a public school’s server. Affirmed.
Citation: 16 N.W.3d 845
Date:
February
03, 2025
State appeals pretrial order suppressing evidence and dismissing charges of driving after revocation, failure to provide vehicle insurance, and unlawful use of an unregistered vehicle. Reversed and remanded.
Date:
October
05, 2004