Goodwin v. State

YETKA, Justice.

This is an appeal by Gary Lynn Goodwin from an order of the district court affirming the decision of the Minnesota Corrections Board refusing to discharge Goodwin on his 25th birthday and transferring him from youth to adult status. The key issue on appeal is whether the state met its burden of proving that an absolute discharge of Goodwin from the sentences which formed the basis of his commitment under the Youth Conservation Act would be “dangerous to the public” within the meaning of Minn.Stat. § 242.27 (1976) (repealed 1977). We believe that the state met its burden of…