Minnesota Lawyer

Attorney Eric Nelson has gone hard and consistently at his chief message: that Floyd’s consumption of illegal drugs is to blame for his death, rather than something Chauvin did.

Ramsey Clark, the attorney general in the Johnson administration who became an outspoken activist and a harsh critic of U.S. policy, has died. He was 93.

The Supreme Court is telling California that it can’t enforce coronavirus-related restrictions that have limited home-based religious worship including Bible studies and prayer meetings.

A Michigan Supreme Court justice said Thursday that he has been overseas for three months, participating in an international program to improve society’s perception of people with disabilities while pulling all-nighters to keep up with his work back home.

Dr. Andrew Baker, the Hennepin County medical examiner, took the stand at the murder trial of former officer Derek Chauvin for pressing his knee on or close to George Floyd’s neck.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court sided with Democrats on Friday and ruled that the state elections commission should not remove from the rolls voters flagged as possibly having moved, something conservatives have wanted done for nearly two years.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday overturned another state murder conviction because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that much of eastern Oklahoma remains an American Indian reservation.

Now that the data are available, a post-election audit provides perspective on what the actual effects of changing deadlines for returning absentee ballots turned out to be.

Judge L. Breland Hilburn presided over the 1994 murder trial of former fertilizer salesman Byron De La Beckwith in the killing of civil rights leader Medgar Evers three decades earlier.

George Floyd died of a lack of oxygen from being pinned facedown on the pavement with his hands cuffed behind him, a medical expert testified Thursday at former Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial.