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In what he said was a first in his eight years on the bench, a Hennepin County judge rejected a plea deal — in this case a carjacker and repeat robber who had "too many victims" to justify a sentence of probation and a year in the workhouse. District Judge Paul Scoggin said in court Wednesday that he could not agree to the Hennepin County Attorney's proposed sentence for Dorian Flowers, 20, in ...

Prosecutors dropped charges Friday against a man accused of being the driver in a police pursuit that resulted in a crash, killing an innocent bystander and resulting in a conviction for the Minneapolis police officer involved. The Hennepin County Attorney's Office dismissed counts of fleeing police and auto theft against James Jeremiah Jones-Drain, 20, citing an "inability to prove all of the ...