State v. Oquist

COYNE, Justice.

Defendant was convicted by a district court jury of attempted murder in the first degree and burglary with a tool and was sentenced to concurrent prison terms of 203 months for the attempted murder and 41 months for the burglary. On appeal from the judgment of conviction, the defendant contends that a warrantless examination of his garbage was an unreasonable search, violative of the fourth amendment, and that the court erred in denying a pretrial motion to suppress the evidence procured from his garbage and to preclude introduction of prior burglary convictions. We affirm.

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