Minnesota Lawyer

A police reform bill passed overnight Tuesday reaches deep into the ways that Minnesota police are trained and held to account if they kill someone or otherwise act badly on the job.

A mother convicted in 2014 of killing her 4-year-old son has failed to convince the Minnesota Supreme Court that, but for ineffective counsel, she might have received a lighter sentence.

After several months’ delay because of the COVID-19 peacetime emergency, the prosecution of a Lanesboro hemp farmer has resumed.

Police union leaders accuse elected officials of anti-cop ‘hatred’ after a remarkably reproachful 2½ hours Wednesday.

The Minnesota House is likely to vote July 20 on a resolution declaring racism a public health crisis.

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

In a case with potential search-and-seizure implications, the state Court of Appeals ruled that a man who had a gun stashed in his car’s center console while driving on a highway must be tried for carrying a pistol in public while intoxicated.

Anyone who wanted the Minnesota National Guard to swoop in and take control of law enforcement when civil unrest rocked the Twin Cities in late May might want to rethink that position, the guard’s adjutant general said last week.

A formal Senate probe into the police tactics that led to George Floyd’s death is unlikely, the Senate’s Republican majority leader said Monday.

Attorney General Keith Ellison has added four heavy-hitter trial lawyers—including one former acting U.S. solicitor general—to help prosecute the George Floyd murder case.