State v. Boyd

AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

This is a pretrial appeal by the state, pursuant to Minn.R.Crim. 29.03, from an order of the district court granting a defense motion to limit (and in effect suppress) the testimony of an expert witness for the state in its prosecution of defendant for criminal sexual conduct in the third degree, Minn.Stat. § 609.344(b) (1982). 1 The testimony, which the state wants to use to prove that defendant sexually penetrated the victim, is that the complainant has given birth to a child after the alleged act of penetration and that blood test results indicate that defendant is…