by Kevin Featherly | May 31, 2021 | Features, Lawyers, Legislature, MN Capitol, MN Courts, The Agenda
Minnesota House of Representatives seal (Photo: Kevin Featherly) Your weekly guide to what’s coming up, going on this week Minnesota Legislature Not much of substance is happening at the Capitol this week—at least not in public view. Lawmakers missed a...
by Kevin Featherly | May 28, 2021 | Lawyers, MN Courts
This photo, taken from a Short family Facebook page, shows them on vaction in Mexico several months before their deaths. All were killed on Sept. 10, 2015, the victims, according to the state Court of Appeals, of ”familicide.” Trustee: Park Nicollet had duty of...
by Kevin Featherly | May 28, 2021 | Legislature, MN Capitol, Police Reform
Minnesota State Capitol (Photo: Kevin Featherly) Here’s what we know so far about the judiciary-public safety budget numbers UPDATE: 5:26 p.m., Friday, May 28: The Associated Press reported late Friday afternoon that lawmakers, who announced they...
by Kevin Featherly | May 26, 2021 | Lawyers, MN Courts, News
Supreme Court Justice Paul Thissen (Photo: Kevin Featherly) Dismissing, then refiling criminal charge does not violate six-month window Over the objections of three dissenting justices, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a man’s right to a...
by Kevin Featherly | May 24, 2021 | Free, Lawyers, MN Corrections, MN Courts, News
Appellant Jennifer Schroeder speaks during a February 2019 Capitol press conference. (Photo: Kevin Featherly) MN Court of Appeals finds Minn. Stat. § 609.165 constitutional The Minnesota Court of Appeals has upheld the constitutionality of a state law...
