Leadership Matters View the pdf here. … [Read more...]

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On July 19th David and the other candidates for Ramsey County Attorney participated in forum on KFAI’s “Truth to Tell” radio program. You can listen to the full hour here: http://www.kfai.org/node/29390 … [Read more...]

Last week I read the horrific newspaper stories about the man accused of tying his live-in girlfriend's 6 year old boy to a post in the basement and whipping him with an extension cord. (Read StarTribune Story Here.) Other than prosecuting the offenders, what can the County Attorney do to stem the tide of child abuse? As it turns out, a lot. According to Victor Vieth, Executive Director of The National Child Protection Training Center how we investigate, charge, and prosecute can have a dramatic positive impact on identifying, reporting, and … [Read more...]

David recently moderated a panel discussion on high profile white collar criminal cases, including the Tom Petters case. David led a panel including a federal prosecutor, a defense attorney, and a legal ethicist in a discussion of the complexities involved in prosecuting such cases. As the only candidate for Ramsey County Attorney that has prosecuted felony crimes and has handled white-collar criminal cases, David is uniquely qualified to deal with these types of cases as the Ramsey County Attorney. Read full story from MinnLawyer.com. Posted … [Read more...]

Fong Lee was driving home from church with his family on June 10, 2006. He exited the freeway and slammed into a van stopped at the top of the exit ramp. Two people died at the scene, and a third died later. Koua Fong Lee was charged and convicted of negligent vehicular homicide. Now it appears that Koua Fong Lee’s claim that he was not at fault in the accident may be legitimate. According to an investigator hired by Mr. Lee’s lawyer, Mr. Lee was, in fact, braking (to no avail) when he crashed. (Inspector: Toyota Driver was Braking). … [Read more...]

David is currently representing a death row inmate for the appeal of his conviction.  The client’s conviction in Texas is being challenged on several fronts, including the representation received in advance and during the trial.  David’s commitment to justice brought him to the border of Texas and Mexico to represent a poor client with only a remedial education because David believes that everyone, regardless of income, education, race, gender, age, or sexual orientation deserves justice. (Reprinted with permission by Minnesota Lawyer) MinnLawyer-Death … [Read more...]

David was approached about representing the family of Father John Kaiser, a Roman Catholic priest, that was found dead in Kenya of gunshots.  Father Kaiser spoke truth to the power of the administration of the then-Kenyan President.  Father Kaiser was in the process of exposing rape charges against a high-ranking government official when he was found dead by the side of the road.  Against long odds, David was able to force the Kenyan government to reopen the case and have Father Kaiser’s death classified as a homicide.  David was driven by … [Read more...]