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Sex Crimes
April 30, 2020
Perhaps no other crimes in Minnesota have more severe direct and collateral consequences than criminal sexual conduct charges. Most of these offenses are serious felonies, and […]
March 24, 2020
Willaim Gladstone was wrong, at least with regard to evidence in sex crimes cases. This English statesman once said that justice delayed is justice denied. That […]
March 9, 2020
The #MeToo era has substantially changed the way many people view consent in sexual relationships. Relationships that were once considered consensual, at least in the eyes […]
December 31, 2019
A Clearwater County Sheriff’s deputy was recently in court to answer charges that he sexually assaulted a ninth-grade student at Bagley High School. Authorities arrested 31-year-old […]
December 2, 2019
According to one recent study, about 80 percent of alleged sex crime victims knew their attacker. Some studies put the figure above 90 percent. If there […]
November 28, 2019
Sex offender registration began here in Minnesota, with the 1994 Jacob Wetterling Act. At the time, Jacob, who was kidnapped in 1989, was still officially missing. […]
November 18, 2019
In many criminal sexual assault cases, there is little physical evidence. Unless the incident occurred at or near a hospital and the alleged victim immediately made […]
November 3, 2019
Because they must cover a wide variety of conduct, Minnesota’s Criminal Sexual Conduct laws are extremely complex. A few of these incidents start rather innocently and […]
October 4, 2019
A 2007 Harvard University study confirmed what many of us already suspected. Most people believe sex offenders are “a homogeneous group with regard to risk,” and […]
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