State v. Acosta

1 Citing case

  1. State v. Porte

    832 N.W.2d 303 (Minn. Ct. App. 2013)   Cited 172 times
    Holding that if the state does not make harmless error argument, this court is not required to undergo harmless error analysis but may do so under certain circumstances

    The district court prepared its instruction by following two unpublished opinions in which this court distinguished permissive-inference instructions from the instructions given in Olson and LaBatte. See State v. Otterson, No. C1–00–1419, 2001 WL 410282 at *2 (Minn.App. Apr. 24, 2001); State v. Acosta, No. C3–99–1785, 2000 WL 1146120 at *3 (Minn.App. Aug. 15, 2000). The unpublished opinions of this court are, of course, not precedential. Minn.Stat. § 480A.08, subd. 3(c) (2012); Vlahos v. R & I Constr., Inc., 676 N.W.2d 672, 676 n. 3 (Minn.2004).