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Final arguments in Derek Chauvin trial focus on fateful day April 17, 2021 — 7:25pm Text size Copy shortlink: The livestreamed trial of ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd nears a conclusion Monday with two lawyers presenting their final, most compelling version of what happened on the street outside Cup Foods almost one year ago. After 45 witnesses and 14 days of testimony in the Hennepin County District Court trial, special prosecutor Steve Schleicher and defense lawyer...

Advocates push for changes to Minnesota's predatory registry March 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) — Advocates in Minnesota are pushing legislators to remove most juveniles from the state's predatory registry, arguing that it makes it difficult for young people to overcome societal barriers. The state's Predatory Offender Registry has more than 18,000 names, which includes people in their teens through their 60s, according to a spokesperson from the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. In some cases, people can be placed on the list without a conviction. Patty Wetterling, ...

The development could delay Chauvin’s trial, which is due to begin with jury selection on Monday. Floyd, who was Black, died on 25 May after Chauvin, who is white, kneeled on his neck while he was handcuffed and pleading that he couldn’t breathe. The killing, which a bystander recorded on video, sparked the biggest civil rights uprising in the US since the 1960s, spilling over at times into rioting but reinvigorating the Black Lives Matter movement and forcing a fresh reckoning on police brutality and broader, systemic racism. The Minnesota court said the Hennepin county district judge Pe...

Karin Sonneman ’89 Choi is also a member of the Mitchell Hamline Board of Trustees; Graves and Palmer are adjunct professors at Mitchell Hamline. The project, funded through a federal grant, is a collaboration between the attorney general’s office and the Great North Innocence Project (formerly the Innocence Project of Minnesota). The Innocence Project of Minnesota was previously headquartered at Hamline University School of Law until the 2015 combination of William Mitchell and Hamline Law. It now is housed at the University of Minnesota Law School but continues to utilize Mitchell Hamli...

The Mitchell Hamline School of Law is advertising a newly created position of vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion. The school announced the opening in a Jan. 14 Twitter post. The position has been a topic of discussion since at least July 1, when Dean Anthony Niedwiecki sent an email to law-school community members during his first day on the job. In it, he talked about his reasons for creating the position and the importance he places on it. “The George Floyd murder in our own community has highlighted the need for Mitchell Hamline to have a more visible and active role in f...