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STATE OF MINNESOTA IN SUPREME COURT A10-0074

Court of Appeals

Page, J. Concurring, Anderson, G. Barry, J. Dissenting, Dietzen, J., Gildea, C.J.

State of Minnesota, Respondent, vs. Michael William Sahr, Appellant. ________________________ Lori Swanson, Attorney General, St. Paul, Minnesota; and Janelle P. Kendall, Stearns County Attorney, Tom J. Harbinson, Carl O. Tvedten, Assistant County Attorneys, St. Cloud, Minnesota, for respondent. John M. Stuart, State Public Defender, Mark D. Nyvold, Special Assistant State Public Defender, St. Paul, Minnesota, for appellant. ________________________ SYLLABUS The trial court's dismissal, on its own motion and in the furtherance of justice, of the State's complaint charging appellant with first-degree criminal sexual conduct constituted an acquittal on the merits that bars the State's subsequent prosecution of the appellant for second-degree criminal sexual conduct arising from the same circumstances. 1 Filed: April 25, 2012 Office of Appellate Courts

Reversed. OPINION PAGE, Justice. In May 2008, respondent State of Minnesota charged then 29-year-old appellant Michael William Sahr with first-degree criminal sexual conduct, in violation of Minn. Stat.

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