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POST Board to hear 1st Amendment policy plan
At its Thursday meeting, the Peace Officer Standards and Training Board will take up the issue of First Amendment protections for protesters.
Bar Buzz: 10th District sets virtual law clinics
The 10th Judicial District will hold free virtual clinics on April 30. They’ll provide a half-hour’s worth of free legal help to folks in the areas of family law, civil/probate law and expungements.
Court closure invalid, conviction overturned
By holding a juror’s voir dire session in chambers during a DWI trial, a Stevens County District Court judge violated the defendant’s Sixth Amendment constitutional right to a public trial.
No change to civil trial moratorium
COVID-19 trends are headed in the wrong direction, so there will be no changes to the state’s in-person civil jury trial ban, the state Judicial Council has decided.
Bills respond to Daunte Wright killing
If passed, the bills would limit pretextual traffic stops as a means of cutting down on dangerous police encounters and eliminate qualified immunity.
Potter charged in killing: ‘We will vigorously prosecute’
Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright, prosecutors said.
Capitol Retort: Chauvin week 2; court packing; shortcomings
Our review of issues in state and national news, with a rotating cast of political people in the know.
Divergent visions of public safety
The GOP-led Senate Judiciary and Public Safety committee approved a skinnier budget package than the House Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform committee passed.
Lawmakers of color demand more police reform
Following the slaying in Brooklyn Center of another Black man in police custody Sunday, Democratic lawmakers of color are demanding tough new police-accountability laws that, in 2021, the GOP-led Senate has held at bay.
Bar Buzz: Legal aid coalition gets $3.5 million
The Minnesota Legal Services Coalition has received $3.5 million in federal CARES Act money through the state of Minnesota and will use it to finance its new Reach Justice Minnesota initiative, the group announced on April 7.
Bar Buzz: Faegre Drinker partner Webber tapped for 1st District bench
Charles Webber, a commercial trial and appellate lawyer and partner at Faegre Drinker, has been tapped as Judge Rex D. Stacey’s replacement on the 1st Judicial District Court bench.
Senate moves to close rape intoxication ‘loophole’
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.
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