The best place to start our discussion of the issues surrounding this whole McNeely frenzy is identifying the fundamental constitutional protections that all of us enjoy, as enshrined in the Bill of Rights, and how these rights are implicated by a DWI arrest. Which of these rights are implicated throughout a DWI arrest, and how […]
Could Brain Scans Prevent Crime?
A neurocriminologist who has spent years studying brain development in criminals believes there exists a biological basis for criminal behavior. Adrian Raine has spent 25 years in the US studying cognitive development, and before that he spent years in Britain attempting to decipher why criminals committed the crimes they did. In 1994, Raine conducted a […]
Feds Want Legal BAC Limit Reduced to .05 Nationwide
On Tuesday, federal accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board recommended reducing the nationwide legal BAC limit from .08 to .05 in an effort to reduce drunken driving fatalities. The proposal was one of nearly 20 recommendations the NTSB offered in hopes of cutting down on drunken driving fatalities, which account for roughly 10,000 […]
Criminal Sexual Conduct Part 1: Crimes that will land you on the Sex Offender Registry in Minnesota
Over the last few months, we have seen an influx of questions about the offenses, penalties and potential ramifications of being convicted of a sex crime in Minnesota. We decided to conduct a three-part series to answer some of the most common questions surrounding criminal sexual conduct. In Part 1, we explain what type of crimes […]
U.S. Supreme Court calls Minnesota’s DWI Laws into Question
On April 17th, 2013, the United States Supreme Court delivered an opinion, Missouri v. McNeely, which called into question nearly every aspect of Minnesota’s DWI law. Not only does the ruling in McNeely raise doubts about the constitutionality of our DWI law in its entirety, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor explicitly overturned what has become […]
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