State v. Ramey

OPINION

MEYER, Justice.

This appeal arises from a jury trial in which respondent, Scott Wade Ramey, was found guilty of violating an order for protection. The court of appeals reversed Ramey’s conviction, holding that the district court erred in giving a no-adverse-inference instruction without Ramey’s request or consent and the prosecutor committed misconduct during the closing argument. The state petitioned for review, claiming that the court of appeals erred in applying the two-tiered analysis from State v. Caron, 300 Minn. 123, 218 N.W.2d 197 (1974), to Ramey’s claim of prosecutorial…