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
August 19, 2024
Date: August 2024 Case: Two Counts of Felony Criminal Vehicular Operation Attorney: Nicole A. Kettwick
Date: July 2024 Case: Criminal Vehicular Homicide Attorney: Paul L. Young Result: Paul successfully negotiated
Attorney: Nicole Kettwick Charge: Criminal Vehicular Operation Date: August 2023 Result: Nicole’s client was charged with a Criminal
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
