Volume 299 — Minnesota Reports

<bold>Estoppel — failure to give transit commission statutory notice</bold> <bold>of tort claim — reliance on defendants advice — effect</bold>. Defendant is estopped from asserting noncompliance with the 30-day notice-of-claim limitation of Minn. St. <cross_reference>466.05</cross_reference> where plaintiff relies upon defendant's advice not to seek counsel and to let defendant handle the claim.<page_number>Page 36</page_number>

<bold>Prisons — prison labor program — constitutionality — amount</bold> <bold>of compensation</bold>.

<bold>Criminal law — preliminary hearing — removal of obstreperous</bold> <bold>defendant — constitutionality</bold>. <block_quote> 1. Removal of an obstreperous and disruptive defendant from the court during preliminary hearing was not a denial of due process or the right of confrontation.</block_quote> <bold>Same — trial — supplemental Rasmussen hearing during trial —</bold> <bold>effect</bold>. <block_quote> 2. A supplemental Rasmussen hearing during the course of trial was neither unfair nor prejudicial, and the trial court did not err in refusing to suppress physical evidence considered at that hearing.</block_quote> <bold>Same — same — instruction on alibi — propriety</bold>. <block_quote> 3. Although the trial court's instruction on the defense of alibi, to which no objection was made, is not one to be recommended, it did not constitute reversible error.</block_quote>

<bold>Criminal law — search and seizure — warrantless search of</bold> <bold>automobile — reasonableness</bold>. <block_quote> If the police have probable cause to believe an automobile was used as an instrumentality of a crime and might contain fruits of the crime, they are justified in searching the vehicle without a warrant provided the search is closely related to the reason for a defendant's arrest and the reason for impoundment.</block_quote>

<bold>Highway traffic regulation — refusal to submit to chemical</bold> <bold>test for intoxication — license revocation — propriety</bold>.