State v. Fields

AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

In State v. Fields, 416 N.W.2d 734 (Minn.1987), we remanded this case to the Court of Appeals, holding that the Court of Appeals erred in refusing to decide whether, as defendant contended, the trial court erred in departing durationally from the presumptive sentence for the offense of uttering a forged instrument. On remand, the Court of Appeals upheld the departure on the ground that the offense was a “major economic offense.” State v. Fields, 420 N.W.2d 677, 679-80 (Minn.App.1988). Disagreeing with the conclusion that the offense was a “major economic offense,” we…