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Yes — still recognizes a duty to retreat in most public self‑defense situations: the state's courts and statutes require a person to avoid using deadly force if a safe means of retreat is reasonably a...
Mohamed Noor was convicted in 2019 of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for the 2017 fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk (also known as Justine Damond) and was initially sentenced to 1...
Two recent decisions and secondary reporting touch on how the state’s weapons statutes, including (permit-to-carry and related “carrying in public” rules), apply in public settings, but there is no cl...
Who can file ethics complaints against Minnesota governors depends on the route: formal impeachment petitions come through the Legislature under the state constitution, while internal legislative ethi...
courts have carved a narrow but clear path: private-property owners — including churches — can bar firearms on their premises, and the state’s statutory posting/notice scheme governs when those bans a...
When a Minnesota judge overturns a jury verdict the primary next steps are appeals—most commonly the prosecutor can appeal the judge’s post-trial acquittal or judgment of acquittal to the Court of App...
’s permit-to-carry statute requires a permit holder, upon a peace officer’s request, to disclose whether they are carrying a firearm () and courts have read that requirement alongside companion statut...
The Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously narrowed the state’s third‑degree “depraved‑mind” murder statute in State v. Noor, holding that the mental‑state element requires a generalized indifference to ...