What if we recognize addiction as a medical problem with ancillary criminal consequences instead of as a criminal problem? What if we didn’t treat addicts as criminals? Minnesota makes possession of any amount of a Schedule I or Schedule II drug (except small amounts of marijuana) a felony. If you use drugs, you possess drugs. So, addicts are criminals. The […]
DWI
Whiskey Plates on a Hummer
When a cop arrests someone for DWI, that person’s driver’s license is revoked more-or-less immediately. If the cop thinks the alleged offense rises to a certain level of severity, the driver’s license plates are removed and destroyed, too. To drive from that point on, the driver has to get “whiskey plates” and he or she has to pay to equip any car he or she might drive with an ignition interlock device that disables the vehicle so it won’t start until the driver blows into a tube proving that his or her breath has no alcohol. This is all for people who are suspected of DWI. They haven’t been convicted yet. They may never be.
225 Drunken Drivers were NOT Busted on Friday Night: KARE 11 is Wrong
Two hundred and twenty-five people were arrested without benefit of any Complaint being sworn or judge determining probable cause or a jury determining guilt.
Minnesota versus Missouri v. McNeely
I have collected sixty-nine opinions of judges from around the state, including thirty-seven (37) written opinions, attempting to apply McNeely to Minnesota cases. You can sort them by judge or county.
What is a “Rule 25”?
If you’re in court for a DWI (or other alcohol or drug-related crimes), you’re going to need to get a chemical health assessment, called a “Rule 25”. What is it?