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

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...

New Federal Arson Charges For May Blazes Set at Gordon Parks High School, St. Paul Enterprise Rent-A-Car Building

Paul Applebaum, an attorney representing White, said Tuesday that White maintained his innocence. Applebaum said he has not received all of the evidence in the case, but acknowledged that the growing number of federal arson charges related to last month’s civil unrest posed a unique legal argument. New federal arson charges for May blazes set...

Feds: Man Held Women Against Their Will, Prostituted Them Out of Motel in Bloomington

The U.S. Attorney's Office charged Stennis in a sealed complaint on Jan. 2 and filed the indictment this week. He faces one count of sex trafficking by force and two counts of transporting individuals for prostitution. Stennis is scheduled to appear in federal court in St. Paul for his arraignment on Feb. 6. Stennis' attorney, Paul...