Freedom Means Being Left Alone “[T]he right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized [people].” –Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States When can police pat you down? Poke behind your ceiling tiles? Peek in your bedroom windows? The Constitutional Right to Be Left Alone: Your right […]
Criminal Defense
COPS and ROBBERS
The Star Tribune recently ran a piece asking whether Minnesota inmates have a right to receive a new, effective, but expensive, hepatitis treatment. Although I prepared myself to read the comments, I was, nevertheless, taken aback when I did. They went like this: “Inmates should not get medication or subsequent transplants. They should lose those […]
Field Sobriety Tests (One Trick You Aren’t Supposed to Know)
Want to know the secret trick for passing field sobriety tests? — don’t take them. Here’s why.
What Every Lawyer Needs to Know about DWI Law
I presented The ABCs of DWI: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know about DWI Law to a group of about 30 legal practitioners at the 2017 l Strategic Solutions for Solo & Small Firms conference in Duluth.
Lawyering on the Radio
I appeared this afternoon on KFAI’s LatinoAltRock radio show. We talked about legal and civil right implications of the recent arrest, on indecent exposure charges, of a female soccer fan who took her shirt off. I always enjoy chatting with hosts Raul Escobar and Pablo Miranda — thanks, guys, for inviting me again!