Two recent cases in Minnesota demonstrate the power or prosecutors and what happens to accused people who may be innocent.
The first case involved a football coach at Mankato State University who had three short videos on his phone of his young children playing in the nude. The local prosecutor charged the coach with the felony of child …
You’ve probably seen or heard of the new film, Lincoln. If not, go. It’s a great movie with wonderful attention to detail and, like all Spielberg films, a great plot. As you probably know, Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer, mostly self-taught. However, he had the good luck to become a lawyer at a time in our country when …
Imagine–a janitor who works quietly by day so that no one suspects him of any criminal activity. By night, he masterminds a global network of money transfers, smuggling, recruiting of young men to fight overseas, and warfare in Somalia.
In federal court in Minneapolis a jury found Mahamud Said Omar guilty of recruiting as many as 20 young …
The BBC reported that after fourteen years, five suspected terrorists including Abu Hamza al-Masri, will finally be extradited to the United States. uk-19852506. The five are accused of plotting the bombing of a U.S. embassy in East Africa in 1998. Why did it take so long to get the courts to return him to U.S. jurisdiction? What …
Imagine two parents who drank constantly, ignored their children while the wife gambled on line and the husband watched porn–all day long. The children were forced to eat potato chips off the greasy carpet.
Or the boyfriend who was beating his “woman” and her son intervened to try and stop the violence. As punishment for interrupting, the man …
As you hear so often in the media about people convicted of heinous crimes: “We should lock ’em up and through away the key!”
However, in every state in both adult and juvenile courts, thousands of people work as probation officers. What do they do and why?
In the criminal justice process, both adult and juvenile, …
Here in Minnesota, there is a referendum set on the ballot for November that would amend the Minnesota Constitution to prohibit 
marriage between anyone except a man and a woman. It’s the so-called, Marriage Amendment.
I don’t want to get into the religious or moral issues as my blog focuses on legal issues instead. I have a few …
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