Commission on Judicial Selection Recommends Fourth Judicial District Candidates to Governor Walz
[ST. PAUL, MN] – The Commission on Judicial Selection announced today it is recommending five candidates for consideration to fill two vacancies in Minnesota’s Fourth Judicial District. These vacancies will occur upon the retirements of the Honorable Margaret A. Daly and the Honorable Kathleen D. Sheehy. These seats are chambered in Minneapolis in Hennepin County.
Flavio Abreu: Mr. Abreu is an Assistant City Attorney at the Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office, where he prosecutes a variety of gross misdemeanor, misdemeanor, and petty misdemeanor cases. Mr. Abreu is also an adjunct professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, where he teaches trial advocacy and mentors law students. He previously worked in the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office, where he prosecuted a variety of child support related matters. In his role as a trial attorney over the past 16 years, Mr. Abreu has litiga
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What’s next for the other former Minneapolis cops charged in George Floyd’s death
Former officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao are set to go to trial on Aug. 23, and it will be televised.
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From left, former Minneapolis police officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao. Star Tribune / TNS
MINNEAPOLIS While former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty, the other three officers at the scene when George Floyd died in police custody on May 25 face a trial this summer.
The other former officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao are set to go to trial on Aug. 23, and it will be televised. The three are charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.
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Bix on Postema on Dworkin & Conventions
Brian Bix (University of Minnesota Law School) has posted Protestant Interpretation, Conventions, and Legal Truth (Thomas Bustamante & Thiago Lopes Decat (eds.), Philosophy of Law as an Integral Part of Philosophy: Essays on the Jurisprudence of Gerald J. Postema (Hart Publishing, 2020)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Gerald Postema has made influential contributions to many parts of legal philosophy (as well as moral philosophy, political philosophy, and the history of philosophy). This article focuses on the intersection of just two of those points of influence his critique of Ronald Dworkin’s work and with his equally important discussion of the role of conventions at the foundation of legal practice and legal theory – to consider some implications for the difficult question of truth in law.