The Minnesota State Patrol did a Halloween weekend campaign to discourage drunk driving, according to the West Central Tribune out of Willmar, MN. The Tribune story shows videos of DWI arrests made by the State Patrol of suspects dressed in their Halloween costumes from last year including a teenage mutant, a French maid, and an [...]
Tags: Akeley, assault, DWI, First Degree Assault, Fourth Degree Assault, Fox 9, minnesota, WCCO, WillmarA Minnetonka man was arrested by Minneapolis police over the weekend for driving under the influence, WCCO reported today. The man was driving a Jaguar XJ8 when he ran a red light and struck another vehicle. Two preliminary breath tests showed he had a blood alcohol content of .40 and .391—five times the legal limit [...]
Tags: 169A.20, 629.471, attorney, defense, drunk driving, impaired driving, intoxication, legal limit, license revocation, maximum bail, minneapolis, minnesota, Minnetonka, qualified prior impaired driving incidentDWI/DUI defendants and criminal defense attorneys in Minnesota have been “waiting to exhale” as the Star Tribune put it on July 27, 2011. On July 26, 2011, the Minnesota supreme court issued an order staying further proceedings in the Source Code Litigation. This ruling means that instead of each case being heard individually, they will [...]
Tags: CMI, Criminal, Criminal Defense Attorney, DUI, DWI, intoxilyzer 5000, intoxilzyer, minnesota, source code, Source Code CoalitionMinnesota Wild fans were saddened by the news of the death of the hockey team’s enforcer, Derek Boogaard, on May 13, 2011. At the time, the cause of his death was uncertain, but one week later the Hennepin County Medical Examiner stated Boogaard’s death was due to an “accidental mixture of alcohol and oxycodone toxicity,” [...]
Tags: 152.01, 152.023, 609.502, alcohol, Boogaard, charge, controlled substances, crime, drug, hennepin county, medical examiner, minnesota, oxycodone, WildWe’ve blogged about the changes to Minnesota’s drug laws to target more synthetic drugs and the first arrest in Winona, MN for possession of synthetic drugs as the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported. Now, Minnesota has had the first arrest for driving under the influence of a synthetic controlled substance. Minnesota’s drinking and impaired driving [...]
Tags: bath salts, controlled substances, dakota county, DUI, DWI, DWI attorney, fleeing police, minnesota, synthetic drugs, vermillionMinnesota’s drug laws are about to get a few changes effective July 1. Some of these changes come as Minnesota youth are using synthetic marijuana and designer drugs. Governor Dayton signed the bill into law in May. In March, we blogged about the Blaine overdose where the synthetic drug “2C-E” or “Europa” had led to [...]
Tags: 2C-E, amendments, bath salts, crimes, drugs, Europa, MDPV, methylenedioxypyrovalerone, minnesota, owi, statutes, synthetic, synthetic marijuanaSo what happens when somebody gets arrested? Not all precincts handle arrests the same, but generally speaking they are handled similarly. In Carver County, most of the time, the process goes like this: 1. The arrest is made and the individual is taken to the jail in Chaska, Minnesota. 2. The individual fills out [...]
Tags: arrest, arrest process, Bennerotte & Associates, carver county, Criminal Defense Attorney, dakota county, minnesota, what happens when somebody gets arrested?Have you ever bought something off of Craigslist? How easy and trustworthy do you think it really is? You probably have heard many stories lately about someone being robbed by another person answering and ad, or even a person selling the item setting up the “for sale item” as a fake to bring people to [...]
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