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Indeed, Time waits for no one, and concerned locals (including those in New London) should pay careful attention to the Silver Leaf Group’s proposed project, which was approved for land use change and tax-increment financing by the Waite Park City Council in May 2015. Last month, council members...

Minnesota has begun the gradual process of releasing sex offenders from the state Sex Offender Program where offenders have been warehoused for decades and which has been found unconstitutional by a federal court. The latest release, a 68-year-old convicted rapist who sexually assaulted a female...

A federal judge has denied an attempt by the State of Minnesota to appeal the judge’s June 17, 2015, ruling that Minnesota's program for civilly committed sex offenders is unconstitutional. Meanwhile, Minnesota’s state-wide sexual hypocrisy in the Catholic church continues to expose itself in...

St. Cloud Times Editorial Board July 4, 2015 Sex offender treatment program needs changes “when one group of individuals is denied their constitutional rights, all people have their constitutional rights denied” “if state lawmakers don't make recommended changes, the judge may order...

Offense: CSC 1 WEAP-FEAR GBH-ACQUAINT-18 OLDER-F Translation: Criminal Sexual Conduct in the 1st Degree, with a weapon, causing fear of great bodily harm, victim was an acqaintance, 18 years of age or older, female Offense: CSC 1-PER INJRY FRC COER-STRANGER-13-15-F Translation: see the...

Would a father beating a pederast into a bloody puddle reform the pederast? Or would it cause a pederast to seek revenge? Would the beaten pederast subsequently spend the next 25 years of his life behind bars? The next chapter begins today . . . Prov. 11:14

One must wonder about the thoroughness of the facebook book, and whether social media of any kind is really adequate to shed meaningful light on a cold case such as this one. Social media, after all, is mostly about seeking attention, not factual accuracy, as well as myopic tunnel vision...

Federal judge to rule on future of Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) The ruling, due Wednesday, is expected to set off a series of monumental changes to a program that has long been criticized as inhumane for indefinitely confining sex offenders after their prison terms have ended and...

And there’s a window van . . . And a license plate . . . But how does white become blue, and blue become red? :jester: “he was riding his bicycle home from a doctor's appointment about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday when he was stopped by a man driving a medium-sized, red, two-door car . . . The...

Are you sure there is a "criminal" in the equation? Francis Hoefgen Acquitted "Proving beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime occurred 24-26 years ago without significant corroborating physical evidence of the crime itself is always a difficult task.” When you think you have...

“But the test is not whether the speaker intended to make an accusation, but whether a reasonable person under similar circumstances would understand the statement as making an accusation.” So, would a reasonable person understand the Facebook book as making an accusation that one or more...

Without more, even a confession decades later would not guarantee a criminal conviction: Mistrial Is Declared in Etan Patz Case The clock is ticking, the final countdown has begun . . . Find the remains, or forget it. Prov. 11:14

In late 1993, four years after the Wetterling abduction, the Washington State Attorney General's Office undertook a 3 1/2 year research project, partially funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, to study child abduction murder cases. The results were published in 1997: • The research showed...

A "treatment program" that automatically locks people up for their whole lives after they have already served their prison terms?? “In a damaging courtroom sequence this week, top administrators at Minnesota’s sex offender treatment program admitted they don’t know if men confined for years...

Is the abductor of Jacob Wetterling among those who now seek release from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) after years of "Indeterminate Commitment"? Below is a small sampling of the plaintiffs in the KARSJENS, et. al., v. JESSON, et. al., Civil No. 11-3659, (United States District...

Don't underestimate, and don't be naive. Psychopathy does not mean stupidity. Some of Minnesota's sex offenders may be (modsnip). For example, Arthur Dale Senty-Haugen was indefinitely committed in 1996 to the custody of the Minnesota Sex Offender Program as a sexual psychopathic personality...

Judge Sides with Minnesota Sex Offenders A class-action lawsuit representing more than 700 civilly committed sex offenders, many from Moose Lake, Minnesota, will go to trial in a St. Paul courtroom beginning Monday, February 9, 2015, after a federal judge denied the state of Minnesota and its...

Think you know who did it, but the suspect is not cooperating and likely never will? Fear the worst, hope for the best, but feel stalemated either way? Dissatisfied with public servants who seem satisfied with the status quo? Whether you seek closure or justice, by now the objective criteria are...

Prov. 11:14

One need not wait five years for circumstances to change. November 17, 2014: “the emotional climate at Moose Lake is replete with negativity, despair, and hopelessness. The clients are understandably and vocally unhappy about their detention at Moose Lake. The most commonly enunciated...