Legal Question in Criminal Law in Minnesota

I WAS COVICTED AND SENTENCED TO 74 MONTHS I APPEALED THE CONVICTION AND THE MINNESOTA COURT ofAPPEALS REVERSED THE CONVICTION AND REMANDED BACK TO DISTRICT COURT WHERE COUNTY ATTORNEY DISMISSED THE CHARGE AM I INNOCENT OR GUILTY OF THAT CHARGE


Asked on 9/23/14, 4:17 pm

4 Answers from Attorneys

Landon Ascheman Ascheman Law

This would be an issue of terminology. Each term is not necessarily interchangeable under the law. Terms like Guilty, Innocent, Not Guilty, Acquitted, Exonerated, each have specific meaning. Simply because the State dismissed the charges does not mean that you have been found not guilty, or that you have been exonerated.

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Answered on 9/23/14, 4:34 pm
Samuel Edmunds Sieben Edmunds Miller PLLC

Neither. You were found neither guilty nor not guilty. The charges were dismissed without a finding either way.

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Answered on 9/23/14, 6:04 pm
Thomas C. Gallagher Gallagher Criminal Defense

Where a conviction was vacated upon appeal, remanded, then the uproven charge dismissed by the prosecutor, there would be no conviction on that charge.

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Answered on 9/23/14, 7:58 pm
Tricia Dwyer Tricia Dwyer Esq & Assoc PLLC

A charge vacated upon appeal, remanded and dismissed means the defendent was not convicted of the charge. Tricia Dwyer Esq.

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Answered on 9/24/14, 11:57 am


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