Legal Opinion
State v. Porte
Court of Appeals of Minnesota
Decided June 24, 2013No. A12-1372PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JOHNSON, Chief Judge.
A Rochester police officer found crack cocaine inside a van that Elvis Joko Porte was driving. An Olmsted County jury found Porte guilty of, among other things, first-degree and second-degree controlled-substance offenses. On appeal, Porte raises several issues. We conclude that the evidence is sufficient to support his controlled-substance convictions. But we conclude that the district court erred by giving a permissive-inference instruction to the jury. Therefore, we reverse and remand for a new trial.
FACTS
On February 24, 2011, a woman reported that her van,…
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