State Minnesota v. Dean Richard Dexter

This is a pretrial appeal by the state pursuant to Rule 29.03, Rules of Criminal Procedure, from an evidentiary ruling of the district court in a criminal prosecution of defendant. The issue raised by the state is whether the court erred in barring the prosecution from impeaching one of its own witnesses with extrinsic evidence of prior inconsistent statement she allegedly made to friends. We affirm and remand for trial.