State v. Sopko

OPINION

WORKE, Judge.

Appellant challenges his seven convictions of gross-misdemeanor interference with privacy for surreptitiously videotaping seven women in a locker room shower area, arguing that the district court erred in interpreting Minn.Stat. § 609.746, subd. 1(d) (2006), to permit seven convictions because only one conviction for the unlawful act of installing the video camera was warranted. We affirm.

FACTS

On December 27, 2007, appellant Steven James Sopko, a janitor, installed a video camera in an air vent in a women’s college locker room, adjusted it to face the shower area, and left…