Minnesota Lawyer

The Conviction Review Unit within the state Attorney General’s Office will focus on wrongful convictions, deemphasizing investigations into over-sentencing — at least in the beginning.

The South Dakota House on Wednesday left the impeachment of the state’s attorney general in doubt as lawmakers moved to delay evaluating whether he should be impeached until the conclusion of the criminal case against him for hitting and killing a man with his car.

The lawyer defending perennial judicial candidate Michelle MacDonald at a Supreme Court disciplinary hearing Tuesday had an intriguing response when Chief Justice Lorie Gildea challenged his line of argument.

The state's revised February economic forecast projects a $1.57 billion surplus for the 2022-23 biennium, the period for which the Legislature is now preparing a two-year state budget.

A wrongful-death claim filed by the mother of a man who died from an untreated illness while in custody at the Beltrami County jail is moving forward.

A bill from Sen. Warren Limmer sends a clear message of displeasure to the state’s Sentencing Guidelines Commission and its five-year probation limit.

The jail sentence for a defendant in the Starkey Laboratories fraud case will remain intact, thanks to a recent decision by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency wasn't obliged under federal law to investigate whether PolyMet Mining planned to operate its NorthMet mine under a “sham permit,” the state Supreme Court has ruled.

U.S. Attorney Erica MacDonald is stepping down at the end of this month. She will be replaced on an interim basis by First Assistant Anders Folk, who becomes acting U.S. Attorney.

Mohamed Noor filed a petition Thursday asking the court to overturn his conviction in the death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond.