Minnesota Criminal Defense Lawyer

In a great piece this week in the Post Bulletin, staff writer Christine Beech takes some time to reflect on crime rates, what’s needed to reduce them, and the broken system in general. While she acknowledges punishment for criminal behavior is necessary, she makes a good argument for everyone to get involved in helping reintegrate the members of society who may have gone astray of the law. read more

In light of a gun death rate already exceeding the number of gun deaths in all of 2009, officials in the city of Minneapolis are letting people know, they won’t be relaxing weapons laws or penalties against violators any time soon. According to the Star Tribune, a news conference this week was the scene for officials to make their tough stance known. read more

Congress recently repealed a mandatory minimum sentence for possession of crack cocaine—a sentence that was completely unfair and even, perhaps, racially skewed to favor more affluent powdered cocaine users rather than the largely African American crack-cocaine defendants. And it all began when a local judge ruled the sentence was unfair and biased. read more