Case Name: STATE of Minnesota, Plaintiff, v. Terrance Jay DUNCAN, Defendant
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1982-03-05
Citations: 316 N.W.2d 518
Docket Number: No. 81-570
Parties: STATE of Minnesota, Plaintiff, v. Terrance Jay DUNCAN, Defendant.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Western Reporter 2d
Volume: 316
Pages: 518–519

Head Matter:
STATE of Minnesota, Plaintiff, v. Terrance Jay DUNCAN, Defendant.
No. 81-570.
Supreme Court of Minnesota.
March 5, 1982.
Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Gary Hansen and Richard D. Hodsdon, Sp. Asst. At-tys. Gen., St. Paul, Alan Mitchell, County Atty., Duluth, for plaintiff.
C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, and Mollie G. Raskind, Deputy Public Defender, Minneapolis, for defendant.

Opinion:
YETKA, Justice.
This is a criminal matter in which the district court has certified an issue as important and doubtful pursuant to Minn. R.Crim.P. 29.02, subd. 4 (1980). Since the state was the losing party in the district court and since it was the party that sought and obtained certification, the state had the responsibility of filing an appellant's brief. The state should have filed an appellant's brief within at least 60 days after delivery of the transcript. Minn.R.Crim.P. 29.01, subd. 2; Minn.R.Civ.App.P. 131.01. However, the state's brief was not filed until long after the time period for filing had expired. Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal, thereby letting stand the trial court's order, which was favorable to defendant.
Appeal dismissed.
. Normally we set an expedited briefing schedule in criminal cases involving certified questions; if that had been done, the state's time to file a brief would have been even less.