State of Minnesota v. Peter Joseph Nayquonabe

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A jury found Peter Nayquonabe guilty of fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct after hearing evidence that he misled a woman to drive him to a secluded park and groped her vaginal area over her jeans. Nayquonabe appeals from his conviction, arguing that the state presented insufficient evidence to support his conviction and that the prosecutor committed four instances of misconduct. Because the victim's testimony and the corroborating evidence sufficiently support the guilty verdict and any prosecutorial misconduct was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, we affirm.