State v. Tice

OPINION

WILLIS, Judge.

The state appeals from a pretrial order granting a motion to dismiss charges of child neglect and endangerment for lack of probable cause. The district court concluded that the child-neglect and child-endangerment statutes require that the situation in which the children were left was more likely than not to cause substantial harm to the children. We affirm.

FACTS

On March 2, 2008, Waite Park police responded to a call reporting that three children, two of whom were later determined to be six years old and the third eight months old, were alone in a vehicle in a…