Criminal Defense
May 30, 2020
During colonial times, the hated British sometimes used writs of assistance, which were basically blank search warrants, to rummage through private property whenever they felt like […]
May 15, 2020
It is much easier for Ramsey County prosecutors to convict defendants who provided chemical samples. Minnesota has a per se DWI law. Defendants with a BAC […]
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 […]
April 15, 2020
Many people believe that a criminal history eventually falls off a permanent record. In some cases, that’s true. Prior DWIs are only relevant to future DWI […]
March 29, 2020
For many years, this legal area was very unsettled. Finally, in 1990’s Michigan Department of State Police v. Sitz, the Supreme Court ended these questions 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 19, 2020
At one point in the 1983 classic The Outsiders, Dallas tries to talk Johnny out of turning himself in for a gang-related murder. “You don’t know […]
March 14, 2020
The DWI Field Sobriety Tests are an important component of almost all these prosecutions. If the defendant provided a chemical sample, the FSTs generally serve as […]
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 […]
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