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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Crime and Justice

The line between cute kids at play and child porn

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 27, 2012, 12:32 PM Aug 27, 2012
12

The message to parents is clear: Don’t take pictures or videos of your children unclothed.

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Tales from the open, err… closed, road

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 24, 2012, 10:55 AM Aug 24, 2012
3

If Americans were better at improv, state troopers might write fewer tickets.

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The Supreme Court? Take a guess

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 20, 2012, 2:54 PM Aug 20, 2012
5

Most of those surveyed cannot name a single member of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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A victory for free speech

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 20, 2012, 11:23 AM Aug 20, 2012
3

The importance of today’s decision is that had it gone another way, and the original verdict survived, future courts would have a good reason to expand the infringement of speech that is unpopular.

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When you can’t say you’re a cop

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 16, 2012, 3:52 PM Aug 16, 2012
4

Better scratch ‘say you’re a cop’ off the list of ways to get out of speeding tickets.

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Drunk driver who left his victims in a parking lot loses appeal

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 13, 2012, 11:40 AM Aug 13, 2012
1

Fabrizio Montermini may be Minnesota’s most despicable drunk driver.

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Live coverage: Sikh temple memorial service

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 10, 2012, 10:43 AM Aug 10, 2012

Courtesy of Milwaukee’s NBC TV affiliate, here’s live video coverage of the memorial service for victims of the Sikh temple shootings in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

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The color of terrorism

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 6, 2012, 12:17 PM Aug 6, 2012
9

Up until 9/11, the words ‘terrorist’ and “white supremacist’ were closely linked.

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How a couple responds to Aurora shooting

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 3, 2012, 2:03 PM Aug 3, 2012
3

Let the record show that Jacqueline Keavney Lader and Don Lader and have guts.

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1,000 Words: The parents

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 20, 2012, 11:39 AM Jul 20, 2012
5

There isn’t a good parent in the world who doesn’t understand the pain of Tom Sullivan, center, who is shown in this AP photo embraces family members outside Gateway High School in Aurora.

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Court: Refusing to submit to drunk-driving test implies guilt

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 16, 2012, 10:55 AM Jul 16, 2012
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If you’re arrested for drunk driving and refuse to submit to chemical testing on constitutional grounds, you’re out of luck in Minnesota, the Court of Appeals ruled today.

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Time to wash our hands of Penn State

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 12, 2012, 2:25 PM Jul 12, 2012
19

To paraphrase Denny Green, Joe Paterno was who we thought he was… assuming we thought he covered up for pedophiles.

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Senser stepdaughter: ‘She’s there because of the crime she committed’

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 10, 2012, 12:02 PM Jul 10, 2012
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Amy Senser’s stepdaughter, who forced her stepdaughter to admit her role in the crash that killed Anousone Phanthavong, hit the morning talk show circuit today.

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How the Senser sentence compares

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 9, 2012, 12:17 PM Jul 9, 2012
6

How does Amy Senser’s sentence stack up against other hit and run sentences?

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The judging of Toni Medrano

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 9, 2012, 11:18 AM Jul 9, 2012
15

There may not be a sadder story than the one today from Cottage Grove, where — the Star Tribune reports — a 29 year old woman set fire to herself, a month after being charged in last November’s death of her infant son.

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