The Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission recently voted to apply a five-year cap to most offenders convicted of felony-level crimes, doing away with extremely long probation sentences. Longer probation sentences would still remain in place for individuals convicted of homicides and sexual assaults, but for other felony-level offenses, the state would enact a five-year cap on […]
How To Contest A Probation Violation
If you’ve been convicted of a crime, accepted a plea deal or been granted a stay of adjudication, there’s a chance that probation is in your future. Probation sentences are unique to the individual and take into consideration the crime that was alleged. For example, someone charged with a DUI may be ordered to abstain […]
10 Common Probation Conditions in Minnesota
Probation is a way a giving an offender the benefit of the doubt by allowing them to avoid spending time in jail so long as they abide by the conditions of their probation. The specifics of your probation can vary based on the charges. For example, someone with a DUI may be told to stay […]
Probation Changes Eyed In 2018
Minnesotans like to boast the we have one of the lowest incarceration rates in the nation, and while some of that is certainly due to our “Minnesota Nice” demeanor, there’s more to the numbers than simply looking at the incarceration rate. For example, Minnesota has the third lowest incarceration rate in the nation, with 196 […]
