Attorney Torgerson’s Reversal of the Decision of Minnesota Supreme Court is on its Way to the United States Supreme Court
Attorney Torgerson’s client had been convicted in the Minnesota District Court of criminal sexual conduct. After his jury trial, he appealed to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. When that appeal was pending, the United States Supreme Court issued its Crawford decision, upholding defendants’ Sixth Amendment right of confrontation. The Minnesota Court of Appeals reversed her client’s conviction under Crawford. The State appealed, and the Minnesota Supreme Court reinstated her client’s conviction. Her client’s petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, at that time, was denied. Ms. Torgerson then brought a petition for a writ of habeas corpus on her client’s behalf in federal district court, United States District Court, District of Minnesota. The Honorable Patrick Schiltz, United States District Court Judge, then reversed the Minnesota Supreme Court, and granted her client’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The State of Minnesota then appealed to the Eighth Circuit of Appeals. The Eighth Circuit upheld Judge Schiltz’ decision, and again, Attorney Torgerson’s client’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus was granted. The State has now brought a petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, and is seeking its review.
Attorney Torgerson Gets Theft by Swindle in the Amount of $2.5 Million Dismissed
Ms. Torgerson’s client was charged with aiding and abetting theft by swindle in the amount of $2.5 million dollars. After a long year of multiple court dates, the case was continued for dismissal. The case has now been dismissed. Excellent result.
Attorney Torgerson Gets Two Not Guilty Verdicts and Two Dismissals; Charges were Criminal Sexual Conduct and Assault
Criminal defense lawyer Lynne Torgerson, Esq. just finished a jury trial in Hennepin County. Initially, months back, her client was charged with 2 counts of criminal sexual conduct and 2 counts of assault. At the contested omnibus hearing a couple of months ago, both of the assault counts were dismissed for a lack of probable cause. Today, the jury trial resulted in not guilty verdicts on the two remaining counts of criminal sexual conduct; a complete victory for her client. Congratulations to both to her client and Ms. Torgerson. Excellent results.
Prosecutor’s Removal of Judge Reversed
Attorney Torgerson recently got a prosecutor’s removal of a judge reversed. In September, Judge A was assigned to the case for the remainder of the proceedings. Unbeknownst to Ms. Torgerson, the prosecutor, in an ex parte fashion, filed a notice of removal with the court, removing Judge A, but failed to serve Ms. Torgerson with said notice. After much confusion, Ms. Torgerson discovered what the prosecutor had done. Attorney Torgerson then brought a motion to vacate the removal of Judge A, because the Rule required the prosecutor to have served her with the notice of removal within 7 days of the original assignment. The Court granted Attorney Torgerson’s motion, and vacated the removal of Judge A by the prosecutor. Judge A has been reassigned to the case for all further proceedings. Excellent.
Bench Warrants Quashed
To her client’s great benefit, Ms. Torgerson recently got two (2) bench warrants quashed. The
client had missed two (2) court cases. Ms. Torgerson was at the court house on another case, and
just happened to check up on her client’s case. She learned that her client had missed two (2) dates. With the help
of the prosecutor and the judge, the warrants were quashed. Now her client does not have to turn himself into jail.
Excellent result for her client.
DWI Eliminated
In a recent DWI case in the City of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Ms. Torgerson was successful in completely eliminating the DWI from her client’s record. In the criminal case, early on, the criminal DWI was dismissed at the arraignment. Then, later, at the civil implied consent hearing, the Judge rescinded the revocation of the petitioner’s driving privileges. Thus accomplishing the complete elimination of the the DWI from the client’s record. Excellent results.
It should be pointed out, in every DWI there are actually two (2) cases. There is the criminal case, that everyone knows about. But there is also the civil implied consent case. In order to completely eliminate the DWI from your record, you must be successful in the criminal case, and, initiate and win the civil implied consent case. Most people are unaware of this second case. If you fail to initiate this second, civil case within the requisite 30 days, even if you win in the criminal case, you still have the DWI on your record. So, whenever you are charged with a DWI, you need to quickly retain an experienced criminal defense lawyer such as Ms. Torgerson, to ensure that your case is handled properly.