Minnesota Lawyer articles from October 2008

Minnesota Lawyer archives from October 2008

Minnesota Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Welfare of: S.R.S.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Jurisdiction over Child Support Order 1. Minnesota courts do not have subject matter jurisdiction under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act to modify a Colorado child support order when all of...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Johnson v. Comm'r of Public Safety.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Certification of Test Result In an implied-consent-law case, a peace officer may satisfy the test-result-certification requirement in Minn. Stat. sec. 169A.52, subd. 4(a) (2006), despite an erroneously...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: In the Matter of Redwood Falls' Application to Extend Service Area.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Electric Service Areas The plain language of the Minnesota Public Utilities Act, Minn. Stat. sec. 216B.40 (2006), precludes the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission from giving effect to an unwritten...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Washington Mut. Bank, F.A. v. Elfelt.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Common-Interest Community's Lien Common-interest communities, whose liens occupy a secondary priority position to first mortgages by operation of Minn. Stat. sec. 515B.3-116(b) (2006) of the Minnesota...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Marn v. Fairview Pharmacy Services LLC.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer staff Misconduct; Duty of Loyalty An employee who breaches a duty of loyalty to the employer commits misconduct disqualifying the employee from receiving unemployment benefits. Thus, where claimant worked as a...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: In the Matter of Penalty Order Issued to Causeway.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Lodging License Where a nonprofit corporation was created by owners of timeshares for the purpose of managing, maintaining, and operating the timeshare development, which consists of 58 townhomes; and...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Baumgartner v. Baumgartner.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Maintenance Where the District Court denied spousal maintenance, finding that wife's property award would allow her to meet her living expenses and that husband received a monthly income draw of $100;...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Lawhorn v. Minnesota.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Race Discrimination; Pretext Even though the Department of Corrections (DOC) offered a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason for issuing an oral reprimand to a corrections officer, stating that after...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Weidner v. Hurt.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Representation of Minor Where mother brought a harassment restraining order (HRO) petition on behalf of her daughter against a father regarding the conduct of a boy who is the stepson of daughter's...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Jones v. Minnesota.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Intramilitary Immunity Where a former serviceman with the Minnesota National Guard alleges that the national guard violated state law by not continuing him in the military status to which he was...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Rajkowski v. Christensen.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Prescriptive Easement Where Rajkowski acquired title to a 40-acre parcel of landlocked property; Rajkowksi's attorney drafted the transactional documents, which do not refer to an easement over adjacent...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: M&I Marshall Ilsley Bank v. DuPont.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Satisfaction of Mortgage Where a revolving line of credit was secured by a mortgage; when the mortgagors refinanced their debt through another company, a title company sent a check to the first...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: M.A.B. and R.A.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Abandonment Where the child is the subject of a private petition for termination of parental rights and has never been adjudicated or alleged to be in need of protection or services; and the petitioners...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Studniski v. Baja St. Cloud LLC.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Quit for Good Reason Where claimant, who was employed by a fast-food restaurant, was called a f-cking b-tch in front of customers by the manager's son, who also worked at the restaurant; and when...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Campbell.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Financial Exploitation of Vulnerable Adult Minnesota Statute section 609.2335, subdivision 1(1) (2002), criminalizing financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, is not unconstitutionally vague as...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Bradley.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Condition of Probation A District Court does not improperly delegate sentencing authority when it requires, as a condition of probation, that an offender complete a chemical-health assessment and...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Edgerson.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Speedy Trial Where there was a nearly six-month delay between the demand for a speedy trial and the start of trial; the delay was attributable to both the prosecutor's scheduling conflict and court...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Dupree.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Failure to Make Motion Where defendant was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct; defense counsel did not make a pretrial motion to admit evidence of the victim's previous sexual conduct;...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Welfare of: K.M.L.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Sex-Offender Treatment Where the juvenile was charged with first-degree robbery and first-degree criminal sexual conduct arising out of a single incident; the juvenile pleaded guilty to the robbery...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Anderson v. Minnesota.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report No Promises re: Programming Where, at the plea hearing, defendant indicated that he wished to waive a PSI and be sentenced that day; and during the ensuing discussion, the District Court explained that...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Nyangweso v. Minnesota.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Procedural Bar Where we affirmed petitioner's conviction on direct appeal; all of the issues that petitioner now raises were known at the time of appeal; and petitioner does not provide evidence or...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Hosley.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Defendant Opened the Door Where defense counsel elicited testimony from defendant about his past convictions; defendant testified that he accepted plea offers because he was guilty and didn't want to...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Paynes.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Investigatory Stop of Pedestrian Where two officers in a squad car responded to a complaint that several men were dealing narcotics on the street; as defendant walked away on the sidewalk, the officers...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Mejia.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Investigatory Stop of Vehicle Where the District Court rejected an officer's explanation that he stopped a vehicle because he saw an expired permit and thought the vehicle was trying to evade him...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Acosta.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Stop and Search of Vehicle Where officers stopped defendant's car approximately 24 hours after they received a confidential reliable informant's detailed information that the vehicle contained cocaine;...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Phillips.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Evidence; Departure Where the state offered evidence of defendant's particular cruelty from three points of view: a child-protection social worker, a nurse, and a criminal investigator, each of whom...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Rice.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Theft By Swindle Where defendant brought a van to an automotive shop for repairs and, unbeknownst to the shop, provided a name that was not his own, a fictitious address, and a number for a telephone...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Velde v. Kirsch.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Replacement Check Exchange For New Value Where a debtor replaced a dishonored check with a new check within 90 prior to his original bankruptcy filing and thus received a release of a bank's security...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Reyes-Solano.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Prior Convictions; 'Crimes Of Violence' Where the district court erred in concluding that a defendant's out-of-state convictions were crimes of violence to impose a four-level sentencing increase, the...

Minnesota's appellate court contests so far a fairly civil affair.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Michelle Lore It appears that Minnesota might escape the expensive, special-interest driven appellate court elections that some other states have endured in the last few years. To date, the most remarkable thing about the...

Incumbents win handily in Minnesota State Bar Association poll of statewide races.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report The Minnesota State Bar Association has released the results of its plebiscite in which members are polled on the judicial races. The following are the results for the statewide seats that will be on...

Birth father gets a hearing before visitation rights can be revoked, rules Minn. Supreme Court.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Barbara L. Jones A birth father who agreed to let his daughter be adopted if he could have ongoing contact with her had the right to an evidentiary hearing before the contact agreement was terminated, the Supreme Court has ruled....

Minnesota law firm sued over antenuptial agreement.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Barbara L. Jones The Bloomington law firm of Larkin Hoffman Daly & Lindgren is scheduled to defend itself later this month against claims that it committed legal malpractice when partner Michael J. Smith drafted an antenuptial...

Politics becomes issue in Minnesota's 1st District judicial race.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Dan Heilman Most of Minnesota's judicial candidates are scrupulously avoiding bringing politics into their campaigns, saying that party endorsements and discussions of hot-button issues have no place in a judicial race. But...

How small firms can work with large firms for clients.(Reprint)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Justin Rebello A little over a year ago, Stephen Weiss discovered that a large portion of the clients of his Buffalo, N.Y-based boutique practice had been accumulated based on relationships with large firms in the area. His firm,...

Minnesota State Bar Association poll results released for District Court races.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report The following are the results of the Minnesota State Bar Association bar plebiscite for local District Court races. The polling was conducted in conjunction with local bar associations. There are no...

Minneapolis law firm develops school law niche.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Dan Heilman The niche: School law The firm: Kennedy & Graven Practice size: Six attorneys If you haven't heard, school is back in session. That means a ramped-up schedule for students, teachers and educators, but it...

Commentary: Counseling clients regarding M&A in today's economy?
October 6, 2008... Byline: Terri Krivosha Lawyers positioned as strategic advisors to business owners frequently hear their clients lament about selling businesses in today's economy. Clients are trying to determine the impact the current economic situation...

Commentary: The unique responsibilities of criminal prosecutors.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Timothy M. Burke Lawyers who practice as criminal prosecutors, whether full time or part time, have unique responsibilities. Prosecutors have the discretion to determine the persons against whom to file charges, the nature of any...

Anoka County District Court Judge Venne charged with four gross misdemeanors.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Barbara L. Jones The Associated Press and the St. Paul Pioneer Press have reported that Anoka County District Court Judge Donald Venne has been charged with four gross misdemeanors for failing to pay all his taxes from 2003 to...

Hennepin County Bar Association seeks participants for LINC program.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report The Hennepin County Bar Association is accepting applications for the fifth year of its LINC program -- Leaders Impacting the Nonprofit Community. Lawyers and other professionals are frequently...

Minnesota's 8th, 10th Judicial District races are low-key.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Barbara L. Jones One judge in the 8th and two in the 10th Judicial Districts are facing opponents, but from the low-key judicial campaigns being run you'd hardly know it. Rather than splashy newspaper ads or television...

Fantasy football serves some law firms' goals well.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Dan Heilman Over the past couple of decades, fantasy football has grown from an arcane pastime enjoyed by a handful of fanatical stat geeks to one that captures the ongoing attention of 25 million players every year -- and one...

Anoka County judge hit with tax charges.(Reprint)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Betsy Sundquist A judge in Anoka County has been charged with failing to file state tax returns from 2003 through 2006 and owes the state more than $3,000 in unpaid taxes, according to the Minnesota Department of Revenue. Judge...

Minnesota Bar Buzz: October 13, 2008.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Sieben and Spader, et al. The Sieben brothers got their 15 minutes of fame last week -- well, maybe it was more like 15 seconds, but it was fame nonetheless -- appearing as extras on the season...

Two appointed to Minnesota's 1st District Court bench.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer staff M. Michael Baxter and Caroline Carrie H. Lennon have been appointed to the 1st Judicial District trial court bench. Baxter will be chambered in the city of Le Center in Le Sueur County, while Lennon will sit...

Four Minnesota lawyers to serve on national bar association.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report The Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association has announced the recent elections and appointments of four of its members to the board of the Hispanic National Bar Association. Peter M. Reyes, Jr., was...

Minneapolis-based Dorsey & Whitney law firm prepares for new financial order.(Reprint)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Mark Anderson The Minneapolis-based Dorsey & Whitney law firm announced recently that it is reorganizing some of its practice areas to meet the wave of workout and regulatory challenges emerging from this year's financial markets...

Minnesota Lawyers in the News: October 13, 2008.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer staff Katrina Giedt has joined Meagher & Geer P.L.L.P as an associate in the firm's Minneapolis office, focusing in the area of insurance coverage. Giedt received her J.D., cum laude, from Benjamin N. Cardozo...

Attractive Nuisance Tour in Minneapolis benefits legal organizations.(Concert review)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report The 6th annual Attractive Nuisance Tour was held on Friday, Oct. 3 at the Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis. The event features bands that have at least one member drawn from the legal community. The...

Rosenberg case still reverberating today, warns Rosenberg's son at speech in St. Paul.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Bill Clements The son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage at the height of the anti-communist fervor of the McCarthy Era, had a warning for those assembled for his talk in St. Paul...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Crawford Group, Inc. v. Holekamp.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Confirmation Of Award; Selection Of Arbitrator; Authority Where a District Court confirmed a $20.7 million arbitration award against a corporation in a dispute with a former vice president over the...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Nelson v. First National Bank and Trust Company.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Breach Of Fiduciary Duty; Former Trustee; Stock Transfer Where trust beneficiaries and a trustee brought a breach-of-fiduciary-duty action against a bank that was the trust's former trustee after a...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Toothman.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Child Pornography; Physical Impairment Where a defendant who pleaded guilty to the knowing receipt of child pornography was sentenced to 97 months, the District Court did not err in denying his request...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Van.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Sufficiency Of Evidence; Sentencing Where defendant was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, the testimony of two witnesses who saw defendant with a gun and a third who testified that...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Blodgett, et al. v. Stoebner.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Standing Where objectors to a trustee's final report did not hold an allowed claim in the case and thus would not benefit from modifications to the trustee's final account or from a reduction or...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Application for PERA Retirement Benefits of McGuire.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Equitable Estoppel; Retirement Benefits The Public Employees Retirement Association of Minnesota (PERA) cannot be equitably estopped from denying or rescinding unauthorized payments. Thus, where...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of: Knippel.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Amendment of Petition Where the original petition, which was filed after the proposed patient was hospitalized in an emergency manner, sought commitment on the ground of chemical dependency; the...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Donovan v. Donovan.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Child-Support-Bonus Provision Where the parties' marital termination agreement, which was incorporated in the dissolution judgment, included a provision for payment of child support from father's...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Adler v. Espinosa.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Custody Modification Where mother had sole legal and physical custody of the older child, who was born in 2003; there was evidence that mother has prohibited father from having parenting time,...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: McCormick v. McCormick.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Nonmarital Property Even though wife made significant efforts to save the homestead from foreclosure by paying off the first and second mortgages with an advance on her inheritance and borrowing money...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: DeBerg v. RSM McGladrey, Inc.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Administrative Charge; Complaint Even though the former employee served a summons and complaint while his administrative charge was pending before the Department of Human Rights without giving notice to...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Jestus v. Jestus.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Resident of Household Even though father, the noncustodial parent, exercised his parenting time, and during periods of parenting time, father and the child acted like a family, with the child having a...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Parker v. RTL Networks Inc.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Misconduct Where claimant knew of his employer's written anti-violence policy prohibiting its employees from engaging in intimidating, threatening, or hostile behaviors; claimant, who was upset with...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Gatson v. Q Carriers Inc.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Misconduct Where claimant, a long-distance trucker, admitted to drinking alcohol about eight hours before he began driving and while on his route received an out-of-service citation from a police...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Biblenko v. Dep't of Employment and Economic Development.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Student Eligibility Even though claimant answered no when asked whether he was willing to quit school if [he was] offered a suitable full-time job that interferes or conflicts with [his] school...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Olsen v. Deluxe Small Business Sales Inc.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Voluntary Quit Where claimant had exhausted her leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act; thereafter, she did not request any other accommodations from the employer; and claimant did not complain to...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Hodge v. Baldwin Supply Co.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Voluntary Quit Where claimant states that he quit because of abusive language used by a coworker during a phone call and because of the failure of his fellow salespeople to assist claimant with his...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Huss v. Scott County.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Stormwater Management for Development Even though a private ditch was constructed years ago to benefit four farms, including the one that respondent now seeks to develop, we conclude that the county's...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Peck.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Mixture; By-Product of Use Under the rules of statutory construction, the definition in Minn. Stat. sec. 152.01, subd. 9a (2006), of a mixture containing a controlled substance must be construed as...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Ramirez.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Jury Instruction Where the District Court added the phrase, knowingly or purposefully to the standard jury instruction on accomplice liability, we conclude that the jury instruction was not improper...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Farleigh, Jr.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Proof of Vehicle Insurance Where defendant, who was driving a vehicle owned by another person, was cited for the misdemeanor of failing to show proof of insurance; and defendant did not disclose the...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Kummer.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Pretrial Appeal; Critical Impact Where the state challenges the District Court's pretrial discovery order requiring it to disclose the source code of the Intoxilyzer 5000EN, basing its appeal on its...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Brown.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Prior Convictions Where defendant was charged with third-degree controlled-substance crime; and he has prior convictions of first-degree burglary and second-degree controlled-substance crime, for which...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Murphy-Scullard.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Conflict of Interest Where defendant was represented at her plea hearing by two attorneys from the public defender's office because one of the attorneys was going on leave soon thereafter; the remaining...

Taking on Big Pharma in Minnesota.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Michelle Lore Qui tam isn't just a foreign phrase, it's a foreign concept to many trial lawyers around the state. But, as evidenced by the $9.9 million settlement of a Medicaid fraud claim against retail pharmacy giant Walgreen Co....

The challenges of Minnesota's 30-something judges.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Michelle Lore When former Hennepin County District Court Judge John Stanoch was appointed to the bench at age 33, then-Gov. Rudy Perpich warned him it wasn't going to be easy. Stanoch specifically recalls the conversation 17...

More 'age-related' views from Minnesota judges.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report It may be that times are changing, or that there is less scrutiny of those who join the bench in their later 30s as opposed to their early 30s, but some judges appointed at an early age told Minnesota...

Hamline University School of Law report addresses health-care conflict resolution.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Hamline University School of Law has released a report outlining recommendations for the creation of dispute resolution systems in the health-care arena. The report is the outcome of a November...

Minnesota State Bar Association creates website supporting court funding.(Website overview)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report The MSBA last month created a new website, www.1000Supporters.org, to keep the legal community informed of the funding issues facing the courts, Legal Aid and the public defenders. The site also keeps...

Mother of drowning victim can go after insurer, rules Minnesota Court of Appeals.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report The mother of a boy who drowned while on a boating excursion can pursue a claim against her ex-husband's insurance company, the Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled. The lawsuit involved the death...

Volunteers needed for national 'Election Protection' program.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers' Committee) and its coalition partners seek volunteer attorneys, paralegals and law students for Election Protection -- the nation's largest...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Vang v. Minnesota.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Motion to Amend Complaint Where defendant was charged with murder; toward the end of the state's case-in-chief, the prosecutor moved to amend the complaint to add the charge of aiding an offender;...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Comeaux v. Minnesota.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report 'Alford,' Insufficient Basis Even though the judge who presided at the plea hearing alluded generally to the evidence expected to be offered by the state at trial, stated that there was sufficient...