Tag: Hennepin County attorney
Judge rejects plea deal Mary Moriarty offered to defendant in Minneapolis...
Judge Michael Burns rejected a plea deal Monday that Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty’s office offered to one of the defendants in the 2019...
Court docs reveal ‘extreme’ public pressure on prosecutors in George Floyd...
New court documents expose the “extreme pressure” prosecutors faced in Hennepin County to charge Derek Chauvin and three other former Minneapolis police officers in...
Relatives of victims hold rally to speak out against Mary Moriarty
Victims' families and residents gathered outside the Hennepin County Government Center Wednesday to share how Mary Moriarty’s progressive approach to prosecuting has “retraumatized” them...
Business owner says wife of former county attorney illegally dumped trash...
Security camera video captured the wife of former Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman illegally dumping her trash in a dumpster behind a Vadnais Heights...
Attorney who prosecuted Myon Burrell says ‘wealth of information’ supports his...
He was convicted twice of killing an 11-year-old girl, only to have his life sentence commuted by a panel that included Gov. Tim Walz...
Candidate downplays concerns that relationship with Moriarty may pose conflict of...
Jen Westmoreland, the partner of Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and newly announced candidate for county commissioner, pledged on Wednesday she would recuse herself from voting on any county board...
Man whose life sentence in child’s murder was commuted by Walz,...
The man whose life sentence in the 2002 murder of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards was commuted in 2020 by a panel that included Gov. Tim...
Charges dismissed against suspect in police pursuit crash that killed Leneal...
Weeks after a former Minneapolis police officer was sentenced to the workhouse for nine months after being prosecuted for crashing into a vehicle during...
Law professor takes position in HC Attorney’s Office, will focus on...
A new Minnesota law went into effect on Aug. 1 that allows county prosecutors to initiate sentence reductions after sentencing for offenders they've previously...
County attorney to deploy social workers to combat rise in youth...
Blaming a viral TikTok video for the rise in youth auto thefts, the Hennepin County attorney announced a new law-enforcement initiative to curb the...