Justin Stephen Ries v. State of Minnesota

OPINION

BJORKMAN, Judge

Appellant State of Minnesota challenges the postconviction court’s reversal of respondent Justin Stephen Ries’s conviction for ineligible possession of a firearm and grant of a new trial due to juror bias. Ries appeals the denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained as a result of a warrantless search and seizure. We affirm.

FACTS

S.A. lived in an apartment in St. Paul with her brother and her six-month-old son. During the evening of January 4, 2013, Ries and two other men came over to visit S.A.’s brother. S.A. did not know Ries but was told, before he arrived,…