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Paul Applebaum Recognized by Marquis Who’s Who for Excellence in Law

Paul Applebaum celebrated for over 30 years of professional excellence in the legal industry. With a career spanning over three decades, Mr. Applebaum has established himself as a distinguished lawyer at the Applebaum Law Firm in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he has served since 1991. As a lawyer, he manages legal matters through the entire...

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...

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...

Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Noor, Minneapolis Moves Forward After Conviction

The politics of the case and the racial realities of the justice system could make for a costly settlement, said civil rights attorney Paul Applebaum, who has represented victims of Minneapolis police in use-of-force cases. “I’m going to be blatant. This was a middle-aged, attractive white woman who by all accounts was a tremendous human...