State v. Jelinek

Citations

• 2024 ND 114

Syllabus

A law enforcement officer's approach to a parked vehicle is not a seizure if the officer inquires of the occupant conversationally, does not order the person to do something, and does not demand a response. A defendant's confession was sufficiently corroborated to permit corpus delicti to be shown through confession. When a charge that requires prior conviction is dismissed, submission of prior convictions to a jury constitutes reversible error unless otherwise relevant to some disputed issue and allowed under Rule 404(b), N.D.R.Ev.