State, City of Eagan v. Elmourabit

SIMONETT, Justice.

The court of appeals set aside a jury verdict that defendant was guilty of driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor, holding that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the conviction. State v. Elmourabit, 356 N.W.2d 80 (Minn.App.1984). We granted the state’s petition for further review, and now affirm.

On April 22, 1983, at 12:26 a.m., Officer Laurie Jane Tripp clocked a jeep approaching her squad car at 63 miles per hour in a 50 mile-per-hour zone. Because of this speeding infraction, she turned her squad car around and, in a distance of about three quarters of…