Justin Stephen Ries, Respondent/cross-Appellant v. State of Minnesota, Appellant/cross-Respondent.

Summary

The court held that officers lawfully pat-frisked and disarmed Ries under the emergency-aid exception because they reasonably believed an intoxicated person with an unsecured handgun posed an immediate threat to people in the apartment. It rejected the court of appeals’ Terry rationale and declined to extend the community-caretaking exception beyond vehicle inventory searches. The court also held that Ries did not forfeit his challenge to the denial of his for-cause juror challenge by declining to use a peremptory strike, requiring a new trial because an actually biased juror served.