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March 23, 2020

Order allows Ramsey County inmates serving for misdemeanors, low-level felonies to be released to home-monitoring amid COVID-19

All inmates serving sentences for low-level, nonviolent offenses in Ramsey County as well as those classified as medically vulnerable will be released to electronic home monitoring. […]
February 15, 2019

New RCAO Policy on Collateral Consequences

New Ramsey County Attorney’s Office policy on considering collateral consequences for plea negotiations and sentencing. COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES PROSECUTION POLICY FINAL 1.31.19
June 14, 2018

Celebrating the Life of Ron Meshbesher

NACDL Mourns the Passing of NACDL Past President Ronald I. Meshbesher Washington, DC (June 14, 2018) – Minneapolis, Minn. attorney and Past President (1984-85) and Life […]
July 27, 2017

Important Minnesota Supreme Court Decision

Minnesota Supreme Court decided yesterday that the amelioration doctrine requires the resentencing of a person whose conviction was not yet final on the effective date of section […]