Bob Collins
There’s an odd result when you try to find the mugshot for Brock Turner, the Stanford swimmer who got a slap on the wrist for raping a woman.
It’s impossible to find. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Crime and Justice
Should people serve life sentences for dealing two kilograms of cocaine?
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The young man says if his father does it again, he’ll call the eye doctor next time. Read more →
The man drove from Minnesota to Los Angeles, where he apparently shot and killed his mentor at UCLA. Read more →
A Star Tribune editorial puts the responsibility squarely on the shoulders of activists who have demanded justice in the Jamar Clark killing, calling activists ‘unfair’ for saying nothing has changed. Read more →
University officials were apparently given every opportunity to talk to reporters to say whatever it is they wanted to say. They chose to say nothing. Read more →
When pedestrians and bicyclists are killed by drivers, their killers often get a slap on the wrist. One widow has had enough.
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If a police officer enters your secured condominium building without a warrant and a drug-sniffing dog outside your door detects the presence of drugs, is it an illegal search?
No, a divided Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled today.
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Authorities had to shoot and kill a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo this weekend after a toddler fell into the exhibit and was grabbed by the animal. Read more →
It’s handy that the University of Minnesota is a research institution. Maybe someone can examine what goes on in the mind of some people in prominent positions in the university’s athletics department sometime. Read more →
If you drive around with a penny in your mouth, you’re probably too drunk to drive. And you’re probably not a science major. Read more →
You wouldn’t know it by the journalism he’s been turning in, but Minnesota Public Radio reporter MPR reporter Mukhtar Ibrahim has had a challenge other reporters haven’t faced at the trial of three Somali men accused of trying to join the ISIS terror group in Syria. Ibrahim, who is Somali-American, has been singled out for different treatment than his white colleagues. Read more →
According to reports today, David Stras, a justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court, is on the short list of people who would be under consideration to fill Antonin Scalia’s seat if Donald Trump were to be elected president. Stras has not been, at least from this non-lawyer’s perspective, particularly flashy or even ideologically driven, at Read more →
A probate court judge said it was not appropriate for the court to make rulings on immigration in the case of Jose Maria Chimborazo Guaman. On Monday, the Minnesota Court of Appeals disagreed.
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The American Bar Association says that only 60 percent of the people who graduated law school in 2015 have jobs in the legal business. That statistic is contained in a New York Times story on the University of Minnesota’s effort to cut the number of admissions to its law school.
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