State of Minnesota v. Roosevelt Hunter

OPINION

SMITH, Judge.

We reverse the district court’s denial of appellant’s petition for postconviction relief because the state does not demonstrate that the district court’s erroneous jury instruction was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, and we remand for a new trial. But we affirm the district court’s denial of appellant’s motion to suppress evidence because police officers had reasonable, ar-ticulable suspicion to support the seizure of appellant’s vehicle.

FACTS

During an evening in March 2010, St. Paul police officers specializing in narcotics investigations were in a vehicle conducting…