Legal Opinion
State v. Trimble
Court of Appeals of Minnesota
Decided August 6, 1985No. C4-84-1189PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RANDALL, Judge.
Appellant Ralph Trimble was convicted of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, Minn.Stat. § 609.342(e)(i) (1982). On appeal he raises a number of issues: suggestive pretrial identification procedures, insufficient evidence, destruction of evidence, refusal to give an instruction, jury coercion, error in admission of evidence and erroneous jury instruction. We affirm.
FACTS
The complainant was sexually assaulted on August 2, 1983, at about 1:30 a.m. The real issue at trial was the identity of her assailant.
Over objection, the complainant testified that she had'…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Simmons v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Manson v. BrathwaiteSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- State v. CaronSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1974
- State v. CarlsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1978
- State v. KoehlerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1981
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