North Dakota’s judicial branch “has requested a slight [budget] increase for the 2019-21 biennium,” reports the Bismarck Tribune, even though Governor Burgum had requested budget reductions from the judicial branch and…
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The cover story of today’s The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead was an article on Bruce Ringstrom Sr. and Bruce Ringstrom Jr. In the article, the Ringstroms discuss their commonalities and differences as…
On November 16, Bruce Ringstrom Jr. participated in the Practicing Restorative Justice Conference at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Along with Karen Kringlie, Nick Thornton, and Johnathan Judd, Ringstrom was a panelist for…
A contempt of court finding against a defense attorney, who was apparently detained for expressing frustration at a judge through body language, was vacated last week in Milwaukee. Reports the Milwaukee Journal…
A new online tool called the National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of Conviction was launched this week to help people “identify [the] obscure regulations that can be triggered by a particular conviction,” says this…
Fargo police surveillance tactics made the news recently when a local criminal trial revealed that “drones were used to surveil the suspects,” in addition to other more common techniques that included GPS…
“An Eden Prairie police detective’s lie about a search warrant in a single drug case will result in 32 cases being dismissed and will let at least one convicted person…
In a recently published study, almost 70 percent of crime laboratories “implicated an innocent person in a hypothetical bank robbery,” explains a New York Times op-ed. The study, which included more…
A recent ruling by the Minnesota Supreme Court “will allow some DWI test-refusal convictions to be retroactively challenged,” reports the St. Cloud Times. In State v. Johnson, the court ruled that “even when someone has pleaded…
The Bismarck Tribune recently reported that “[i]n the 2018 fiscal year, the North Dakota prison population decreased 6.5 percent.” Leann Bertsch, director of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, attributes the decrease…
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