State of Minnesota v. Bashir Abdullahi Farah

OPINION

SMITH, Judge.

We affirm the district court’s pretrial order excluding eontrolled-substance evi dence because the district court, concluding that appellant State of Minnesota had sufficient notice, did not err by making a chain-of-custody evidentiary ruling before trial and did not abuse its discretion by finding the evidence inadmissible.

FACTS

On April 12, 2013, Agent Arnold Zuniga of the Freeborn County sheriff’s office and the South Central Drug Investigation Unit learned that a confidential reliable informant could arrange for him to buy one ounce of cocaine for $1,000. Agent Zuniga…