State v. Tomlin

How courts have described this case

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• holding that appellant did not obstruct legal process by telling lies to investigating officers, which lengthened and diverted investigation
• noting that before considering whether evidence was sufficient it was necessary to first determine what evidence is required for a conviction of obstructing legal process
• recognizing that § 609.50 is “directed solely at a particular kind of physical act that physically obstructs or interferes with an officer” or “in limited circumstances . . . ‘fighting words’ [that] have the effect of physically obstructing or interfering with an officer”
• recognizing that § 609.50 is “directed solely at a particular kind of physical act that physically obstructs or interferes with an officer” or “in limited circumstances . . . ‘fighting words’ [that] have the effect of physically obstructing or interfering with an officer”
• applying Krawsky and concluding that defendant’s lies to police did not rise to the level of fighting words and did not constitute obstructing legal process because defendant’s lies and omissions did not physically obstruct officers during their investigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Ihle
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2002-03-28· cited 83×
• Brian Thomas Hoyland v. Shawn McMenomy
  Eighth Circuit· 2017-08-28· cited 47×
• John Hugh Gilmore v. City of Minneapolis
  Eighth Circuit· 2016-09-13· cited 42×
• State v. Soukup
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2003-02-11· cited 26×
• State of Minnesota v. Renee Anita Vasko
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2017-01-18· cited 22×
• State v. Aloi
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2004-12-14· cited 12×
• State v. Pederson
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2013-12-09· cited 11×
• State v. Morin
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2007-06-26· cited 9×
• State v. Manypenny
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2003-06-03· cited 3×
• State v. Colosimo
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2002-07-23· cited 3×
• Hoyland v. McMenomy
  D. Minnesota· 2016-05-05· cited 3×
• State v. LORSUNG
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2003-03-25· cited 2×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• City of Houston v. Hill
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-15· cited 1,428×
• State v. Webb
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1989-05-26· cited 349×
• State v. Krawsky
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1988-08-05· cited 52×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1999-03-11· cited 18×
• State v. Tomlin
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2000-06-27· cited 2×