State v. Weber

OPINION

HARTEN, Judge. *

Appellant State of Minnesota challenges the district court’s pretrial order granting respondent’s motion to amend jury instructions on possession of a firearm by a felon to include as elements of the crime that the defendant must be discharged from sentence and from court supervision.

FACTS

In February 2005, respondent Mark Weber was sentenced for second-degree criminal sexual conduct, a crime of violence. In August 2005, while he was on probation for his February 2005 conviction, probation agents discovered a shotgun during a search of his home. He was charged with…