JURIST

APRIL 6, 2023

The survivors and families of the victims joined in a lawsuit against the US government, alleging negligence under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act due to the government’s failure to prevent Kelley from purchasing a firearm despite his prior felony convictions. The post US Justice Department to give $144.5M

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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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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

This guide, authored by County Attorney Reese Frederickson from Minnesota, IIP Deputy Director Alissa Marque Heydari, a nd IIP Legal Fellow Chloe Marmet , spotlights individuals who have implemented restorative justice programs to meet the needs of the victims, society, and the accused in their communities.

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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. Minnesota has a Castle Doctrine law. Landis Rachel Hill, 31, and her boyfriend, Christopher Dwayne Grayson, were arrested after Hill ran over a man who allegedly robbed them.

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JURIST

JUNE 13, 2023

The new statewide ban only allows abortion prior to six weeks in cases of incest or abuse or if the life of the mother is at risk, classifying the performing of abortions outside these parameters as a Class C felony. The Red River Women’s Clinic was forced to move to Moorhead, Minnesota, leaving North Dakota with no abortion clinics.

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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. Hari bombed the Dar al-Farooq (DAF) Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, on Aug. That is the first such argument that I have seen in a criminal case.

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JURIST

JUNE 27, 2024

million United States’ citizens were disenfranchised from voting due to felony convictions. million people, 73 of them never or rarely deny a person’s right to vote based on felony convictions. In many states and federally, unauthorized voting is a felony offense. As of 2022, 4.4

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association called his efforts “insulting.”. Castile’s death spurred Ramsey County, MN Attorney John Choi to announce that he was ending the prosecution of cases resulting from non-public safety traffic stops.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 22, 2022

In a 2015 Op Ed for the Minnesota Star-Tribune , former Minnesota State Senator Don Betzold said of the controversial Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP): The sex offender treatment program is like a prison — only worse, because there’s no ‘out’ date.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2021

In a study linking business ownership information with information from a background check and consumer data company, RAND also analyzed data from the states of Minnesota and North Carolina for a deeper analysis of the Paycheck Payment Protection Program created last March to aid small businesses affected by the pandemic.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court also temporarily enjoined two felony riot statutes because they went “far beyond” the State’s “appropriate interest” in criminalizing participation in a riot with acts of force or violence. Minnesota Supreme Court Declined to Review Claims Regarding Environmental Review for Oil Pipeline. WildEarth Guardians v.

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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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

The action involved closing valves on pipelines in Washington, Montana, Minnesota, and North Dakota. He had been convicted of misdemeanor trespass and felony criminal mischief and conspiracy to commit criminal mischief in October 2017. Foster , 34-2016-CR-00187 (N.D.

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The Estrin Report

MARCH 16, 2025

In one of only four cases to go to trial, Trump was convicted in New York state court of 34 felony charges involving hush money paid to a porn star. Well, then I am cutting off your electricity to Minnesota. Trump called Smith deranged accusing him of a politically motivated witch hunt. Trump faced criminal charges in two other cases.

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