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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Crime and Justice

If a bear dies in the woods…

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 22, 2010, 11:55 AM Jun 22, 2010
2

Can a Minnesotan keep it?

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Crime and Justice

The suicide of Duy Ngo

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 7, 2010, 2:59 PM Jun 7, 2010
11

Even by MPD standards, the case of Duy Ngo has reeked from the start.

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Flying under the influence

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 1, 2010, 4:10 PM Jun 1, 2010
4

Despite an arrest in Zimmerman this week, it’s unusual for pilots to fly under the influence of alcohol.

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Court: Getting to work is not your employer’s problem

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 1, 2010, 1:40 PM Jun 1, 2010

The Minnesota Court of Appeals today overturned an unemployment law judge’s ruling that a Good Thunder woman, who already had a 170-mile daily commute to her office in Bloomington , is not entitled to unemployment compensation because her company moved 17 miles farther to St. Paul.

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Discrimination award against MPD upheld

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 1, 2010, 12:14 PM Jun 1, 2010
1

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has cut in half an award to a Minneapolis couple who alleged police discrimination in a 2006 incident at an impound lot.

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Court: Sister can sue brother for sexual assault

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 27, 2010, 2:09 PM May 27, 2010

The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled the a state law preventing family members from suing other family members does not prevent a Walnut Grove woman from suing her brother for sexually assaulting her as a child.

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The BP oil disaster: More than shortcuts

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 26, 2010, 12:19 PM May 26, 2010
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Shortcuts may be too gentle a word for what happened on the Deepwater Horizon.

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The limits of self-regulation

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 25, 2010, 12:42 PM May 25, 2010

A gambler violates his own ban on gambling, and is charged with trespassing.

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Fun times for census workers

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 25, 2010, 12:08 PM May 25, 2010
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The Census Bureau has been producing vignettes of census workers describing the joys of their jobs. So far, nobody has listed having a gun pointed at them.

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Are some kids worth grieving over more than others?

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 19, 2010, 1:03 PM May 19, 2010
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If gang members aren’t worth mourning, is there any hope of saving them?

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When it comes to kids, what are we thinking?

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 19, 2010, 10:39 AM May 19, 2010
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The story of the father who put his son near a cougar at Como isn’t the only case of risking our children we see each day.

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Court: Minnesota can lock up sexually dangerous Native Americans

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 18, 2010, 3:34 PM May 18, 2010

The Minnesota Court of Appeals today ruled the state doesn’t have the authority to incarcerate Native Americas as sexually dangerous persons, but the court gave the state permission to do so.

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In Alabama, class learns how to shoot a president

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 18, 2010, 11:16 AM May 18, 2010
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The Secret Service investigates a teacher but finds explaining geometry by calculating shooting a president does not violate the law.

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SCOTUS upholds civil commitments for ‘sexually dangerous’

Than Tibbetts May 17, 2010, 3:24 PM May 17, 2010

In a 7-2 decision today, the Supreme Court upheld a federal law allowing the government to hold “sexually dangerous” persons in civil commitment after they have served the length of their criminal sentences.

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David Stras and the Minnesota Supreme Court

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 13, 2010, 11:24 AM May 13, 2010
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It’s a rare day when an appointment of an associate justice to the Minnesota Supreme Court gets more attention than the naming of a chief justice for the same court.

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