State of Minnesota v. Adaiah Deontraie Townsend

OPINION

KLAPHAKE, Judge. *

Appellant argues that the district court erred by denying his motion to withdraw his guilty plea to the offense of aiding an offender after the fact, Minn.Stat. § 609.495, subd. 3 (2012), when a jury subsequently found the principal offender not guilty of the underlying offense. We affirm.

FACTS

In May or June 2013, appellant Adaiah Donotraie Townsend purchased a handgun from Damin Shufford. On June 26, 2013, Shufford asked Townsend if he could have the gun back because he intended to rob someone. Townsend loaned him the unloaded gun. Later that day, Shufford called…