State v. Frazier

KELLEY, Justice.

This is a pretrial appeal by the state, pursuant to Minn.R.Crim.P. 29.03, from an order of the district court suppressing evidence on Fourth Amendment grounds in a prosecution of defendant for the gross misdemeanor offense of unlawfully possessing a pistol without a permit, Minn.Stat. § 624.-714, subd. 1 (1980). We affirm the suppression order.

At 9:15 p. m. on the evening of October 28, 1981, two plain-clothes Ramsey County Sheriff’s Deputies, who were driving around St. Paul in an unmarked squad car trying to serve warrants, including a warrant for the arrest of one Terri…