State v. Ronnebaum

KELLEY, Justice.

This is a pretrial state’s appeal of the trial court’s order suppressing evidence in the criminal prosecution of defendant for child sex abuse. The court of appeals, in a 2-1 decision, did not reach the merits of the suppression issue. It ruled that the state did not meet its burden under State v. Webber, 262 N.W.2d 157 (Minn.1977), of showing that the suppression of the evidence, if sustained, will have a “critical impact” on the outcome of the prosecution. State v. Ronnebaum, 446 N.W.2d 699, 701-02 (Minn.App.1989). The dissent argued that under our decision in State v. Joon…