State v. Nutt

OPINION

WOZNIAK, Judge.

This is a pretrial appeal by the State, pursuant to Minn.R.Crim.P. 28.04, from an order of the trial court suppressing evidence of prior offenses and wrongful acts. The trial court ruled that the Spreigl evidence would be inadmissible for substantive purposes, but that evidence of any prior convictions would be admissible for impeachment purposes if defendant took the stand. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand for further trial court proceedings.

FACTS

On the afternoon of March 6, 1985, D.R.A., an eleven-year-old boy, was walking home from school in southeast…