Legal Opinion
State v. Fields
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided May 3, 2007No. A04-2474PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MEYER, Justice.
In 2004, a jury in Otter Tail County convicted respondent William Leroy Fields of criminal sexual conduct for raping K.W. in the summer of 1997. In an unpublished decision, a divided panel of the court of appeals held that the prosecutor’s inquiry into a theft by Fields, an incident unrelated to the rape and not resulting in a conviction, constituted error because the prosecutor did not comply with the procedures for the use of Spreigl evidence. State v. Fields, No. A04-2474, 2006 WL 463524, at *4 (Minn.App. Feb.28, 2006). The court of appeals failed to consider whether…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- State v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1994
- State v. DeWaldSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1991
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