Legal Opinion
State v. Russell
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided December 13, 1991No. C3-91-22, C7-91-203PublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WAHL, Justice.
We are asked, in this pre-trial appeal, to consider the following certified question:
Does Minnesota Statute 152.023, Subd. 2(1) (1989), as it is applied, violate the equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and the Minnesota Constitution, Article 1, Section 2?
Under Minn.Stat. § 152.023, subd. 2, a person is guilty of a third degree offense if he or she possesses three or more grams of cocaine base [hereinafter “crack cocaine”]. Under the same statute, a person must possess ten or more grams of cocaine powder to be guilty of the same…
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