Civil Rights Archives - Applebaum Civil Rights and Criminal Defense Law Firm

What led up to State Patrol shooting of Ricky Cobb?

Troopers were attempting to arrest Cobb on a "probable cause hold/pickup" on behalf of the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office, which is similar to a warrant. Applebaum is an attorney on the criminal and civil sides who has both represented police and sued the police. He says the way the troopers conducted themselves prior to the...

Applebaum and Partner Receive 2020 Attorney of the Year for Winning Trial of Man Wrongfully Convicted of Sex Crime

Applebaum and Partner receive 2020 Attorney of the Year for winning trial of man wrongfully convicted of sex crime. The jury deliberated quickly and found Chambers not guilty on all counts in a March 2020 trial just before the national pandemic lockdown. His family wept and hugged, and even law enforcement shook their hands while...

Montana Drug Couriers Busted in Minnesota With 900 Pounds of Pot Go Free

After watching video of the stop taken by Myren’s squad car, St. Paul lawyers Paul Applebaum and Hillary Berit Parsons, who represent Desroches and Gordon, respectively, filed motions to suppress the evidence as the result of an illegal search. “The video played a huge role in us getting it tossed out because a lot of...

Chauvin Case Shines Spotlight on Minneapolis Police History of Mistreatment of Handcuffed Suspects

"Handcuffing is sort of the law of demarcation where it takes a whole lot of justification to use force after somebody's handcuffed, and it better be proportional to what a person did after somebody's handcuffed," said St. Paul-based attorney Paul Applebaum, who represented the man assaulted by Reiter in a civil suit against the...

Chauvin Case Draws Inevitable Comparisons to Another High-Profile Police Murder Trial

The two cases differ down to the descriptions of each victim killed, said defense attorney Paul Applebaum. Prosecutors "had the benefit, in Noor's case, of somebody who had been angelized: She was a yoga teacher, she was an attractive middle-aged white woman, so that story wrote itself," said Applebaum, pointing out that the defense intends...