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C2-00-2238, State of Minnesota, Appellant, vs. Janet Kay Anhalt, Respondent. June 12, 2001

Case Date: 06/26/2001
Court: Court of Appeals
Docket No: C2-00-2238

STATE OF MINNESOTA
IN COURT OF APPEALS
C2-00-2238  

 
State of Minnesota,
Appellant,  
 
vs. 

Janet Kay Anhalt,
Respondent.  

Filed June 19, 2001
Reversed and remanded
Poritsky, Judge*

 Dakota County District Court
File No. K3001172

Mike Hatch, Attorney General, 525 Park Street, Suite 500, St. Paul, MN  55103; and

James C. Backstrom, Dakota County Attorney, Scott A. Hersey, Assistant County Attorney, Dakota County Judicial Center, 1560 West Highway 55, Hastings, MN  55033 (for appellant)  

Lawrence Nichols, 1971 Seneca Road, Suite A, Eagan, MN  55122 (for respondent) 

            Considered and decided by Stoneburner, Presiding Judge, Schumacher, Judge, and Poritsky, Judge.

S Y L L A B U S

            Where a no-knock provision in a search warrant is void because it is not supported by a sufficient showing, but the police knock and announce before executing the warrant, the district court should not suppress the evidence seized in the search if there is otherwise probable cause to justify the search.

O P I N I O N

PORITSKY, Judge

            The district court determined that a no-knock search warrant executed at respondent Janet K. Anhalt