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Paul Helps Client Avoid Prison Time in Criminal Vehicular Homicide Case

Date: July 2024 Case: Criminal Vehicular Homicide Attorney: Paul L. Young Result: Paul successfully negotiated a plea agreement for his client charged with Criminal Vehicular Homicide. Paul effectively communicated with the prosecutor, highlighting his client’s personal circumstances and the proactive measures taken post-incident. The Court stayed a 48-month prison sentence and alternatively ordered Paul’s client to serve 300 days in...

Nicole’s Client Avoids a Conviction on Charges of Felony Criminal Vehicular Operation

Date: August 2024 Case: Two Counts of Felony Criminal Vehicular Operation Attorney: Nicole A. Kettwick Result: Following a collision with a motorcycle in Pine County, Nicole’s client was charged with two felony counts of Criminal Vehicular Operation. After a number of hearings, proactive steps completed by the client, and ongoing conversations with the prosecutor, Nicole was able to negotiate a...

Nicole’s client avoids a felony sentence on a criminal vehicular operation conviction.

Attorney: Nicole Kettwick Charge: Criminal Vehicular Operation Date: August 2023 Result: Nicole’s client was charged with a Criminal Vehicular Operation after a car crash resulted in substantial injury to a passenger in his vehicle. Criminal Vehicular Operation typically carries a felony level sentence, and Nicole’s client pleaded guilty to the charge in exchange for no further jail time. However, with her client’s proactive...

Charges Declined for Nicole’s Client

Date: February 2023
Case: Preliminary Criminal Vehicular Homicide
Attorney: Nicole Kettwick
Result: Nicole’s client was facing a potential criminal vehicular homicide charge in Freeborn County. After Nicole spoke with the prosecutor and investigator, the prosecutor decided to decline the charges.

Mike Secures Dismissal of Criminal Vehicular Homicide Charges

Date: December 2022
Case: Criminal Vehicular Homicide (x2)
Attorney: Michael J. Brandt
Result: Mike was retained to represent a juvenile client facing two charges of Criminal Vehicular Homicide which originally was going to be designated as an Extended Jurisdiction Juvenile case. However, based on Mike’s negotiations with the prosecutor and his client’s proactive steps, Mike was able to convince the prosecutor to keep the matter in juvenile court and secured a stay of adjudication for his client, which means that upon successful completion of probation, the Criminal Vehicular Homicide charges were dismissed, and Mike’s client was only convicted of Fourth Degree DWI.

Nicole’s Client Avoids Criminal Vehicular Operation Conviction

Date: August 2022
Case: Felony Criminal Vehicular Operation
Attorney: Nicole Kettwick
Result: Nicole’s client was charged with Felony Criminal Vehicular Operation after getting into an accident where the passenger broke their leg. Nicole negotiated the case down to a Gross Misdemeanor Leaving the Scene of an Accident, which saved her client a 3-year license revocation and a felony conviction.

Felony Criminal Vehicular Homicide Reduced to Gross Misdemeanor Criminal Vehicular Operation

Date: March 2022
Case: CVH
Attorney: Mike Brandt
Result: Mike was retained to represent a client charged with felony criminal vehicular homicide in Aitkin County resulting from an accident involving a death. As the matter was charged, it called for a sentence of four years in prison. Mike was successful in negotiating a reduced charge of gross misdemeanor criminal vehicular operation. Mike’s client did not serve any jail time and kept a felony off his record.

Gross Misdemeanor Criminal Vehicular Operation Dismissed with Plea to DWI

Date: February 2022
Case: Gross Misdemeanor Criminal Vehicular Operation, Fourth Degree DWI
Attorney: Nicole Kettwick
Result: Nicole’s client faced Gross Misdemeanor Criminal Vehicular Operation and two counts of Misdemeanor Fourth Degree DWI after a boating accident. Because of Nicole’s negotiations with the prosecutor and her client’s proactive steps, the gross misdemeanor criminal vehicular operation charge was dismissed and instead the client plead guilty to a Fourth Degree DWI and was placed on unsupervised probation.

Nicole’s Client Avoids Felony in Criminal Vehicular Operation Case

Date: November 2021
Case: Criminal Vehicular Operation
Attorney: Nicole A. Kettwick
Result: After a head-on collision left both Nicole’s client and another driver in the hospital, Nicole’s client faced two counts of Felony Criminal Vehicular Operation (CVO). Nicole’s client made significant strides in sobriety and in a restorative justice circle with the victim in the accident. This helped Nicole reach a resolution with the prosecutor where her client pled guilty to an amended charge of Gross Misdemeanor CVO, and her client was able to avoid a felony conviction and jail time.

Criminal Vehicular Operation reduced to DWI

Date: July 2021
Case: Criminal Vehicular Operation
Attorney: Nicole A. Kettwick
Result: Nicole’s client was in a traffic collision and left the scene without giving his information to the other driver. The police arrested Nicole’s client at his home and charged him with 3 counts of Gross Misdemeanor Vehicular Operation, 2 counts of Misdemeanor Fourth Degree DWI, and Gross Misdemeanor Failure to Stop for a Traffic Collision. Nicole encouraged her client to take various proactive steps and then used his progress to negotiate with the prosecutor. Nicole convinced the prosecutor to dismiss all of the Gross Misdemeanor charges. Nicole’s client was placed on 2 years of probation and was ordered to complete 80 hours of community service. Nicole’s client avoided a Gross Misdemeanor conviction and avoided serving any jail time.

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