State v. Landon

This is a pretrial appeal by the state, pursuant to Rule 29.03, Rules of Criminal Procedure, from an order of the district court suppressing evidence in a prosecution of defendant for possession of a pistol without a permit, Minn.St. 624.714, subd. 1. The issue raised by the appeal is whether the police violated defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights when, after lawfully stopping defendant for a speeding offense, they shined a flashlight into defendant’s car and observed in plain sight the gun defendant is charged with illegally possessing. We hold they did not violate defendant’s rights and…