On November 14, 2011, federal court judge Joan N. Ericksen sentenced two men for a home invasion and killing in St. Paul, MN. According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the two men were convicted of killing a man, a woman, and the woman’s daughter after breaking into the home to look for drugs and [...]
Tags: drug-trafficking, drugs, fbi, federal court, firearm, minnesota federal district court, murder, ramsey county, st. paulMahdi Hassan Ali’s trial in the Seward triple murder concluded. We previously blogged about Ali’s case that the Minnesota supreme court where his attorney argued the trial court was wrong to find Ali was not under 16 at the time of the murder. According to the Star Tribune, the Hennepin County jury returned a verdict [...]
Tags: hennepin, Mahdi Hassan Ali, minneapolis, murder, Seward, Seward Market, seward triple murder, supreme court, trialWe had previously blogged about Mahdi Hassan Ali, the alleged gunman in the triple murder the Seward Market on Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis, MN. At that time, the Minnesota supreme court had agreed to hear Ali’s claim that the district (trial) court had incorrectly determined that Ali was over sixteen at the time of the [...]
Tags: 260B.125, 609.185, certification, delinquency, delinquent, extended juvenile jurisdiction, first degree muder, juvenile, juvenile court, Mahdi Hassan Ali, minneapolis, murder, robbery, Seward, Seward Market, supreme courtTrial began today for the murder trial of a St. Louis Park teen, Michael Swanson, in Iowa. According to Fox 9, jury selection wrapped up today and the attorneys presented their opening statements to the jury. Michael Swanson, eighteen years old, is accused of having shot and killed two convenience store clerks. Prosecutors allege that [...]
Tags: assault, insanity defense, mental illness, murder, robbery, trialWe don’t often think of a state’s criminal laws as having potential international repercussions. If, for example, someone is charged with drunken driving in Minnesota or if someone is even charged with murder here in Minnesota, we don’t think it would have sweeping that might affect American diplomacy. Nonetheless, a case in Texas has drawn [...]
Tags: criminal procedural rights, drunk driving, DWI, International Court of Justice, international criminal law, international treaty, murder, Vienna Convention on Consular RelationsA triple murder case is closed. The murders happened six months ago when Trace Maxwell went on what some have called a roid rage. Most everybody investigators talked to about Maxwell only had good things to say about him. Maxwell must not have thought the same about himself, or a select few people. First he [...]
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