Minnesota Lawyer

The Senate Judiciary committee on Thursday unanimously adopted a major amendment to its budget omnibus judiciary/public safety bill that, among other things, closes that so-called “intoxication loophole” exposed by the Khalil decision.

The Commission on Judicial Selection has recommended three finalists for a spot on the Hennepin County District Court bench, which is opening with the retirement of Judge Thomas S. Fraser.

The House and Senate judiciary budgets for 2022-23 are quickly taking shape. Predictably, the DFL-led House is being just a bit more generous that the GOP’s Senate majority.

The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have resulted in fewer allegations of vulnerable adults being mistreated, the state Department of Human Services reported Tuesday.

After initially denying raises for judges, House Judiciary’s $1.086 billion biennial budget-and-policy omnibus was amended Wednesday to include a 3% salary hike requested for judges for 2023.

Our review of issues in state and national news, with a rotating cast of political people in the know.

A candid Q&A with Rep. Jamie Becker-Finn, the House Judiciary’s rookie chair, who's a career prosecutor, a stalwart defender of equity and an opponent of racism, prejudice and privilege.

In a decision with implications for the Derek Chauvin trial, the state Supreme Court has ruled that pattern jury instructions, long used by judges in third-degree depraved-mind murder cases, have been used in error.

Six finalists have been named for a pair of judgeships in the state’s 6th Judicial District. The state’s Judicial Selection Commission named the batch of finalists on March 26.

Last week’s unanimous State v. Khalil opinion, written by state Supreme Court Justice Paul Thissen, name checks Rep. Kelly Moller’s House File 707 and lifts a passage directly from it.