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Second Chance Month®: Breaking Barriers

Blackstone Career Institute

In some states, even certain misdemeanors can bar people from serving on juries. Multiple states in recent years have made steps to open up jury duty to individuals with felony convictions, including Florida, Connecticut, and Louisiana. capitol), incarceration for a felony offense impacts the right to vote.

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Minnesota Attorney General Launches Clinic to Clear Criminal Records

The Crime Report

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will be hosting a clinic in north Minneapolis this week to help eligible people get their criminal records wiped clean, Nafi Soumare reports for the Minnesota Reformer. Expungement is available for misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor charges, such as theft, forgery or drug possession or sale.

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Police Groups Ask The University of Minnesota To Investigate Student’s Call To Make Life “Hell” For Officers

JonathanTurley

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.” Misdemeanor offenses. Gross misdemeanor offenses.

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Minnesota Man Kills Roommate’s Four Emotional Support Ferrets

JonathanTurley

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. Arneberg is now charged on four misdemeanor animal cruelty counts, each of which carries a maximum penalty of a year behind bars. Here is the Minnesota provision 609.15

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Restorative Justice Gains Support in America’s Smaller Communities

The Crime Report

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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“This Judge is a Hero”: Democratic Politicians and Judges Praise Judge Dugan and Call for Resistance

JonathanTurley

According to the criminal complaint , a six-person arrest team (including an ICE officer, a Customs and Border Protection officer, two FBI special agents, and two DEA agents) came to the courthouse to arrest Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican immigrant facing three misdemeanor battery counts they intended to deport. Her Minnesota colleague, Sen.

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212,000 Business Owners Barred From COVID Aid Because of Criminal Record

The Crime Report

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.