Posted: September 15, 2015 Commuting to work, dropping children off at school, and running errands are daily occurrences in most people's lives. Without a license, accomplishing these tasks can be incredibly difficult. Fortunately, there is an option for getting your...
S|E DWI Blog #5 – Minnesota Ignition Interlock Program
Posted: September 10, 2015 One of the consequences of getting a DWI is losing your driving privileges. Most people are drastically unprepared to lose their license. Daily obligations continue after a DWI; people still need to commute to work or drop children off at...
S|E DWI Blog #4 – DWI Defenses – A Primer
Posted: September 1, 2015 We'll continue our discussion of DWI defenses in this week's Sieben|Edmunds DWI Blog series. In our last blog post, we discussed the affirmative defense of necessity. The governor and legislature responded to Axelberg by permitting the...
S|E DWI Blog #3 – DWI Necessity Defense in License Revocation Challenges
Posted: August 25, 2015 The Sieben Edmunds DWI Blog Series is back at it again! In our third installment, we’ll talk about the DWI necessity defense. According to Black’s Law Dictionary, necessity is “a justification defense for a person who acts in an emergency that...
S|E DWI Blog #2 – DWI Vehicle Forfeiture Option for Innocent Owners
Posted: August 13, 2015 Welcome to the second installment of the Sieben Edmunds DWI Blog Series! We'll take a closer look at what an innocent owner, who did not commit a DWI offense, can do to get their vehicle back after it has been seized. The state is permitted to...
S|E DWI Blog #1 – Harsher DWI penalties went into effect on August 1, 2015
Posted: August 6, 2015 Welcome to the first installment of the Sieben Edmunds DWI Blog Series! We'll explore various aspects of DWI law in Minnesota in a series of weekly posts. Think twice before drinking and getting behind the wheel after August 1, 2015. The...
EDMUNDS NAMED BOARD CERTIFIED CRIMINAL LAW SPECIALIST
The Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA) has announced that Samuel J. Edmunds has been named a MSBA Board Certified Criminal Law Specialist. This certification program is administered by the MSBA and approved by the State Board of Legal Certification. To become a...
Evidence Unknown in Brainerd Shooting
Earlier this month two suspects were arrested in the murder and attempted murder of a man and woman in Brainerd, Minnesota. You can read the initial story at Valley News Live. As of the date of this article, police had not recovered the weapon used, a motive was...
Sieben Edmunds Lawyers React to Lack of Indictment in Garner Case
PRESS RELEASE You’ve now probably heard of the story of Eric Garner, a New York City man killed by police during an arrest for selling “loose” cigarettes on the street. This week a grand jury chose not to indict the police officer who killed Garner using a...
New Expungement Law Benefits #2-3: Follow Up and Legal Remedy
Prior to the new law, if you received an expungement order, the law enforcement agencies had 60 days to comply. They didn’t have to tell the court they did it, and they certainly didn’t have to tell you that they completed the action. Now, under the new law, you can...
New Expungement Law Benefit #1: No Petition
The current law requires that you file a lengthy petition which includes all your previous addresses, a statement about why you are requesting an expungement, and many more details about the offense or offenses you are trying to expunge. (For the complete list of...
Get Your Life Back.
It’s embarrassing. Back in college you got a minor consumption ticket which has haunted you in graduate school or when you applied for that job you really wanted. It’s wrecking your career. Years ago you were down on your luck and you got caught shoplifting some...
Are Personal Injury Lawyers Morally Corrupt Superheroes?
People think of personal injury lawyers as if they are a type of anti-superhero (think of a mix between “The Flash” and “Spiderman” except morally corrupt). Every time there is a car accident, the story goes that a lawyer’s nose begins to twitch, he smells something...
More Bite Than Bark: When Injured By A Dog, Get a Lawyer
Dog attacks are brutal. They can often result in muscle damage, permanent scarring or disfigurement, and emotional damage that never goes away. But, there are more to dog attacks than just bites and Minnesota law recognizes that. Minnesota law authorizes civil suits...
What if Adrian Peterson was charged in Minnesota?
NFL running back Adrian Peterson was recently indicted on child abuse charges in the state of Texas. Much of the surrounding conversation has centered on the morality of corporal punishment and the amount of discretion parents should or should not have in disciplining...
Domestic Violence – Are We Asking the Right Question?
After the recent release of a video showing former NFL running back Ray Rice hitting Janay Palmer, his then fiancé, I feel it is an important time to have some real dialogue about domestic violence. The Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women reports that at least 38...
More Questions Than Answers in Pursuit of Ty Hoffman
A fundamental tenant of our judicial system is that a person is presumed innocent until the State proves otherwise. For our legal system to remain just and rational, we must adhere to this basic principle no matter how overwhelming we may think the evidence is. Ty...
Sieben Edmunds Hires Mayor of Lakeville, Matt Little
The law firm of Sieben Edmunds PLLC, located in Mendota Heights, recently hired Matt Little as an attorney. Little graduated magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School in May of 2014 and serves as the Mayor of Lakeville. This hire is indicative of...