The Crime Report
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will be hosting a clinic in north Minneapolis this week to help eligible people get their criminal records wiped clean, Nafi Soumare reports for the Minnesota Reformer. Expungement is available for misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor charges, such as theft, forgery or drug possession or sale.
The Crime Report
MAY 1, 2023
Minnesota has passed a bill that would legalize recreational marijuana. The automatic expungement of misdemeanor marijuana records would be overseen by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. This is part of a broader move towards social equity and racial justice.
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
A Minnesota district court sentenced former police officer Kim Potter to two years in prison on Friday. Convicted in December for first- and second-degree manslaughter, Potter was sentenced only on the more serious charge per Minnesota law. She described the case as “one of the saddest. I’ve had on my 20 years on the bench.”
JURIST
MAY 18, 2021
A Minnesota judge has set the tentative trial date for former police officer Kim Potter for December 6, pending any scheduling conflicts. The officers found there was an outstanding warrant for his arrest for a gross misdemeanor weapons charge. The incident began to escalate, and Duante Wright reentered his vehicle.
JonathanTurley
MAY 2, 2021
Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association and the Law Enforcement Labor Services has taken the unusual (if not unprecedented) step of asking the University of Minnesota to investigate a student for her call to make the lives of campus police a living “hell.” Misdemeanor offenses. Gross misdemeanor offenses.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 26, 2022
There is a bizarre case in Minnesota where Levi Arneberg, 27, is accused of killing his roommates four emotional support ferrets with a BB gun. Arneberg is now charged on four misdemeanor animal cruelty counts, each of which carries a maximum penalty of a year behind bars. Here is the Minnesota provision 609.15
LawTechnologyToday
APRIL 30, 2021
e) A violation of this section is a misdemeanor. (f) The states of Texas, Virginia and Minnesota allow the use of a GPS tracker on a vehicle as long as the vehicle’s owner provides consent.
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