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Minnesota Supreme Court: Non-Identifying Information About CI Must Be Disclosed Upon Request
Loaded on July 15, 2020
by Anthony Accurso
published in Criminal Legal News
August, 2020, page 20
Filed under:
Informant's Identity.
Location:
Minnesota.
by Anthony Accurso
The Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota affirmed a decision by the Court of Appeals, which held the district court erred in denying a defendant’s request for non-identifying information about a confidential informant (“CI”).
In February 2017, law enforcement filed an affidavit requesting a search warrant ...
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