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ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS
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ORDERS ON PETITIONS FOR FURTHER REVIEW
FILED Tuesday, March 18, 2025
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(Petitioners Indicated in
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1.
Chad Loran Siegel vs. Drew Evans – A24-0594
Issue Granted: Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that petitioner is required to register as a predatory offender under Minn. Stat. § 243.166, subd. 1b(a)(1) (2024), because the district court entered a judgment of acquittal under Minn. R. Crim. P. 26.03, subd. 18(1)(a), on the predatory offense petitioner was charged with—kidnapping.
2. State of Minnesota vs.
Brian Russell Lueck – A24-0250
Issue Granted: Whether it is constitutional to convict a driver for refusing to submit to a blood or a urine test when law enforcement did not obtain a warrant for a urine sample.
3.
State of Minnesota vs. Paul James Steichen – A24-0097
Issue Granted: Did the court of appeals misapply this Court’s
Alford-lineage case law to Steichen’s
Norgaard guilty plea when it determined that the factual basis supporting Steichen’s guilty plea was not strong enough?
4. State of Minnesota vs.
Mohamed Abdulgani Ahmed – A24-0037
Issues Granted: (1)Was it plain error to instruct the jury that Ahmed was guilty of any other crime committed by the co-conspirator provided it was reasonably foreseeable when Minnesota's drug conspiracy statute, Minn Stat. § 152.096, subd. 1, contains no such expansive theory of liability? (2) Was it plain error for the prosecutor to tell the jury in closing argument that the state did not need to prove that Ahmed and the co-conspirator had an agreement to sell drugs above the statutory threshold? (3) Was it plain error for the prosecutor to misdescribe the unanimous verdict requirement by telling the jury in closing argument that four jurors could convict Ahmed of conspiracy under a co-conspirator theory, four jurors could convict him for aiding his co-conspirator, and four jurors could convict him finding that he committed the crime personally?
Denied
5. Daley Farm of Lewiston, L.L.P., et al. vs. County of Winona, Land Stewardship Project, Defenders of Drinking Water – A23-1953
6. Daniel John Wyatt vs. State of Minnesota – A24-0674
7. In re the Estate of: Josephine Lucille Bicanich, Decedent – A24-0907
8. In re the Marriage of: Petroula Nicole Hansen vs. Espen Allen Hansen – A24-0353, A24-0991
9. In re the SUPERVISED Estate of Nancy Eileen Flatgard, Deceased – A24-0784
10. Joseph J. Walters vs. Minnesota Department of Corrections – A24-0437
11. Kimberly Kay Mountjoy vs. Fairview Health Services, et al. – A24-0973
12. State of Minnesota vs. Alexander Steven Jonas – A23-0720
13. State of Minnesota vs. Alton Dominique Finch – A23-1935
14. State of Minnesota vs. Christopher Nicholas Markgraf – A23-1871
15. State of Minnesota vs. Cody Michael Bauer – A23-1813
16. State of Minnesota vs. Darius Ahmadd Olson-Baker – A23-1687
17. State of Minnesota vs. Dwayne Edward Roach – A23-1873
18. State of Minnesota vs. Edgar Daniello Martinez-Montez – A23-1206
19. State of Minnesota vs. Fredi Amilcar Sun Chajon – A24-0325
20. State of Minnesota vs. Jacob Colt Johnson – A23-1872
21. State of Minnesota vs. Joe Cecil Sistrunk – A24-0105
22. State of Minnesota vs. Lamarquita Gesine Leach – A23-1946
23. State of Minnesota vs. Lukas Devlen Fineday – A24-0227
24. State of Minnesota vs. Ronald Louis Watts, Jr. – A24-0994
25. State of Minnesota vs. Ryan Marshall McNally – A23-1278
26. State of Minnesota vs. Servando Suarez Rivera – A24-0010
27. State of Minnesota vs. Terrion Lamar Sherman – A24-0110
28. State of Minnesota vs. Thomas James Horton, Jr. – A23-1933
29. State of Minnesota vs. Tolulope Martins Famuyiwa – A24-0132
30. State of Minnesota vs. Virl Budette Deal, III – A24-0195