STATE v. MALECHA

A22-1314.

3 N.W.3d 566 (2024)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Rebecca Julie MALECHA, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

Filed: March 6, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith Ellison , Attorney General, Saint Paul, Minnesota; and Brian M. Mortenson , Rice County Attorney, Sean R. McCarthy , Assistant Rice County Attorney, Faribault, Minnesota, for respondent.

Cathryn Middlebrook , Chief Appellate Public Defender, Saint Paul, Minnesota; and Melvin R. Welch , Welch Law Firm, LLC, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for appellant.

Teresa Nelson, American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for amici curiae American Civil Liberties Union and American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota.

Paul D. Sellers, Shauna Faye Kieffer, Minneapolis Minnesota, for amicus curiae Minnesota Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.


OPINION

The question presented is whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule under the Minnesota Constitution, adopted for the first time in Minnesota in State v. Lindquist, 869 N.W.2d 863, 876-77 (Minn. 2015), should apply to evidence obtained during a search...

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