Last week the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that “[y]ou’re not protected by the Fifth Amendment’s right against self-incrimination when a judge orders you to use your fingerprint to unlock your…
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A judge has dismissed a federal case against the Bundy ranch family of Nevada, reports Reason.com. Judge Gloria Navarro declared “flagrant prosecutorial misconduct,” including “withholding potentially exculpatory evidence” from defense…
Some Philadelphia police officers “have sued their bosses for allegedly ordering them to lie on arrest paperwork about their informants,” reports the Associated Press. The practice is one “that experts…
A recent Minnesota Court of Appeals ruling “established case law in Minnesota regarding the Fourth Amendment rights of a non-probationer living with probationers,” reports Minnesota Lawyer. The article summarizes the…
MPR recently reported on the organization We Are All Criminals, which “wants more people to know that while one in four people in the U.S. has a criminal record, four…
Last week a federal appeals court decided that the confession of Brendan Dassey, featured in the “Making a Murder” documentary series, was not coerced. Specifically, the court said that an…
A Clay County judge recently granted a motion to suppress that was made by Bruce Ringstrom Jr. The case involved a police search of a vehicle and the vehicle’s occupant…
The Grand Forks Herald recently reported on Polk County, Minn., as an “outlier for incarceration” in the state. An “analysis of data from the National Corrections Program found the county…
A fall 2017 report by the Legal Aid Justice Center says that 46 states – including Minnesota and North Dakota – have some form of driver’s license suspension tied to…
A recent article about the “Face Lab” at a North Carolina university discusses how facial recognition science and technology have the potential for solving problems as well as the potential…
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