Brooks v. State

OPINION

LARKIN, Judge

Appellant challenges decisions of post-conviction courts in Scott and Hennepin Counties, which summarily denied his requests for relief from three driving-while-impaired convictions. Appellant argues that, the postconviction courts erred by refusing to retroactively apply Birchfield, 136 S.Ct. at 2160, Thompson, 886 N.W.2d at 224, and Trahan, 886 N.W.2d at 216,1 and by denying his ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claims. We conclude that the rules announced in Birchfield, Thompson, and Trahan regarding the search-incident-to-arrest exception to the Fourth Amendment’s…