Believe it or not, drunk driving has only been prosecuted in Minnesota for 105 years. The Minnesota legislature first made it illegal to “drive while in an intoxicated manner” in 1911, but the law has certainly evolved from there. Today, we take a closer look at how DUI laws have been adopted and tweaked in […]
The Harshest and Most Lenient States For DUI
Drunk driving is a problem in all 50 states, as data suggests that drunk driving played a role in nearly 1 in 3 traffic-related deaths in 2014. Aside from the loss of life, drunk driving also takes an economic toll, costing Americans more than $40 billion a year in economic losses. While drunk driving is […]
Making A Murderer Co-Star Has Conviction Overturned
A federal judge in Milwaukee overturned the conviction of Brendan Dassey, the then-16-year-old whose case was featured on the highly popular Netflix series “Making a Murderer.” Dassey was originally convicted of first-degree intentional homicide, second-degree sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse. At the age of 17 years and 6 months, he was tried as […]
Minnesota Clemency Projects Help Lessen Excessive Sentences
Minnesota schools and law students have been busy working on clemency projects designed to get some inmates shorter sentences. Oftentimes these projects are targeted at individuals who would have received lessor sentences had they been sentenced under current sentencing guidelines as opposed to older, stricter legal interpretations, but they can also target prisoners who have received […]
The True Cost of Speeding Tickets In Minnesota Cities
As we noted in yesterday’s blog on four potential penalties of speeding, there’s much more that goes into a speeding citation than meets the eye. While we were doing a little information digging on the subject, we came across a cool infographic from the site NerdWallet.com. The graph explained the average true cost of a […]
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