JonathanTurley

MAY 2, 2021

Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association and the Law Enforcement Labor Services has taken the unusual (if not unprecedented) step of asking the University of Minnesota to investigate a student for her call to make the lives of campus police a living “hell.” 2b.Other felony offenses.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 26, 2022

There is a bizarre case in Minnesota where Levi Arneberg, 27, is accused of killing his roommates four emotional support ferrets with a BB gun. While misdemeanors are generally sentenced to a year or less, that would bring the sentence up to a felony level sentence. Here is the Minnesota provision 609.15

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2021

There is an interesting criminal case out of the Minnesota that highlights both criminal and tort doctrines on the defense of self and defense of property. Called “Make My Day” laws in some states, there are also “Make My Day Better” laws allowing people to use lethal force in defense of other property like cars.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2021

We often follow novel or new arguments raised in criminal cases and one such defense has arisen in the case of a defendant convicted of bombing a Minnesota mosque in 2017. That is the first such argument that I have seen in a criminal case. Hari bombed the Dar al-Farooq (DAF) Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, on Aug.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Alissa Eleanor Azar, a well-known Antifa activist, was sentenced to jail recently in Oregon after being convicted of felony riot and disorderly conduct. Former Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison, now the Minnesota attorney general, once said Antifa would “strike fear in the heart” of Trump.

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