State v. Torgerson

453 N.W.2d 698 (1990)

STATE of Minnesota, Appellant,

v.

Victor Wilmar TORGERSON, Respondent.

No. C2-89-805.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

April 6, 1990.

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., Joel A. Watne, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, and Teresa Joppa, Asst. City Atty., Moorhead, for appellant.

Bruce Ringstrom, Moorhead, for respondent.

Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.

KEITH, Justice.

We granted the state's petition for review in this case while the consolidated appeals were pending in State v. Piotrowski, 453 N.W.2d 689 (Minn., filed herewith). On the basis of our…