Memo to the Court: (3) Suppression Memo
In honor of the Bar Results for Minnesota this month we thought we would do something nice for those young attorneys looking at starting out on their own, just like we did. So, what better way to help them out (besides underwriting the massive investment needed)...
Case Blog – State v. Zabawa
We got a good one this week. The best part is that it's not a post-conviction case! Today we are looking at State v. Zabawa - and the admissability of statements by the defendant. The factual situation in this case is very tragic, it appears that Mr....
Memo to the Court: (2) Urine Pooling
In honor of last weeks Bar Results for Minnesota we thought we would do something nice for those young attorneys looking at starting out on their own, just like we did. So, what better way to help them out (besides underwriting the massive investment needed)...
Scrap the .08 – lets go back to actual impaired driving
Just read an excellent article today concerning drunk driving laws. Here's a little taste for you... Last week Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo advocated creating a new criminal offense: "driving while ability impaired." The problem with the current...
Case Quote – United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648, 655-56 (1984)
"The right to the effective assistance of counsel is thus the right of the accused to require the prosecution's case to survive the crucible of meaningful adversarial testing. When a true adversarial criminal trial has been conducted ... the kind of testing envisioned...
Memo to the Court (1) Expungment Memo
In honor of last weeks Bar Results for Minnesota we thought we would do something nice for those young attorneys looking at starting out on their own, just like we did. So, what better way to help them out (besides underwriting the massive investment needed)...