# Dereje v. State

> Supreme Court of Minnesota · October 9, 2013 · 837 N.W.2d 714

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8247062

## Case

- **Full name:** Tsige Abebaw DEREJE v. STATE of Minnesota
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Minnesota
- **Decided:** October 9, 2013
- **Citations:** 837 N.W.2d 714; 2013 Minn. LEXIS 407; 2013 WL 5551127
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Wright
- **Judges:** Anderson, Been, Consideration, Lillehaug, Submission, Took, Wright
- **Cited by:** 44 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that “the submission of documentary evidence presenting contradictory versions of events” is a bench trial under Minn. R. Crim. P. 26.01, subd. 2, and not a stipulated-facts trial under 26.01, subd. 3
- stating that a court “need not address both the performance and prejudice prongs” of the Strickland test if one is determinative (quotation omitted)
- holding that “submission of documentary evidence presenting contradictory versions of events cannot constitute a valid trial on stipulated facts”
- stating that “[t]he interpretation of the rules of criminal procedure is a question of law that we review de novo”

## Opinion text

WRIGHT, Justice
(dissenting).
I join in the dissent of Justice Page.

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