State, Department of Public Safety v. Kaasa

Writ of prohibition upon the relation of the State of Minnesota, Department of Public Safety, to restrain the Honorable Irving W. Beaudoin, judge of the county court for Dakota County, from granting defendant, Carlyle M. Kaasa, a jury trial at the initial driver’s license revocation hearing under the implied-consent law, Minn. St. 169.123, subd. 6.

Minn. St. 169.123, subds. 6 and 7, provides that a defendant in a revocation proceeding under the implied-consent law is entitled to a jury trial upon appeal to the district court but not at the municipal or probate court level. But the County Court…