Can you drop a no contact order in Minnesota? If you asked for it in family court in the first place, it’s civil and you can drop it. But if it’s in a criminal case, you’ll need to work at it. Here’s how. No Contact Orders in Criminal Cases A crime with a “domestic relationship” element… Read More »How to Drop a No Contact Order in Minnesota
Out of the blue – someone you love has been arrested and is in jail. So what can you do? And what do you need to know? From bail to a lawyer, this handy guide offers ten tips on how to get your loved one out of jail. He or she is in jail. So… Read More »Get Out of Jail After Arrest – Tips for Getting Her Out
In Minnesota, prosecutors charge lawful weapon carriers with Felony Assault 2. And Minnesota’s Second Degree Assault crime statute allows a felony charge for assault, even with no bodily harm at all, if the defendant used a weapon. Moreover, Prosecutors enjoy implying something nefarious about that archaic word, “brandishing.” Forewarned is forearmed As a result, every… Read More »Brandishing, Assault & Self-Defense: Legal Readiness
The other day I was talking to a prosecutor. And I told him that we needed to keep my client’s public record clean. “We don’t want words like ‘marijuana,’ ‘drug paraphernalia,’ and ‘criminal conviction’ there.” And he mischievously said, “You know how he could avoid all that, don’t you? Don’t get caught.” He was joking, but like many jokes there… Read More »How to Avoid a Marijuana Arrest in a Car in Minnesota: Nine Tips
Do you think little or a lot about self-defense? Either way, you’ll live a better life when you consider self-defense from two perspectives: the practical and the legal. The different schools of self-defense training agree on many things. Similarly, the law of self-defense agrees in many ways across jurisdictions, cultures, even history. And though practical self-defense… Read More »Escalation, Dominance, Deception in Self-defense
Self-defense and The Other: Self-defense is a legal defense to certain criminal charges in Minnesota. A defendant can plead self-defense when facing charges of: assault, murder, and disorderly conduct, among others. It is not a bright-line sort of law. If it were, the law would be easier to apply; but justice and fairness would suffer. Instead, the… Read More »Self-defense and The Other