MAC e-update
MAC NEWS
Happy New Year! Please have a safe and happy new year. MAC is proud of all of our members
and their steadfast support of victims and victims’ rights. Thank you for all you do!
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Save the date for End Violence Against Women Action Day scheduled for March 18,
2015! Details to be announced soon.
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Deb Jessen, Executive Director
ed@mnallianceoncrime.org
612-940-8090, 866-940-8090
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Upcoming trainings, webinars and other events
Resources and FYI
Grants
Job Opportunities
News from the Courts
UPCOMING TRAININGS, WEBINARS AND OTHER EVENTS
Beyond “50 Shades of Gray”: Understanding BDSM and Sexual Violence CLE webinar offered
by MNCASA, January 16.
The Battered Women's Justice Project is holding a webinar on military divorce and its
intersection with intimate partner violence (IPV) on January 12 and
Housing Protections for Survivors of Domestic Violence in Rental Housing webinar on January
14.
End Violence Against Women is having its International 2015 International Conference on
Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence and Campus Responses and a Pre-Conference day TraumaInformed Investigations and Prosecutions.
On March 19-21, 2015, Futures Without Violence will host the National Conference on Health
and Domestic Violence in Washington, DC.
Gundersen National Child Protection Training Center’s On-Demand Webinars are available.
Minnesota 40 hour Sexual Assault Advocacy Trainings:
Committee Against Domestic Abuse
Location: Mankato, MN
Schedule: January 3rd and 4th and 10th and 11th from 8a-6p each day with an hour break at noon
Contact: Hannah at 507.625.8688 x103
Sexual Offense Services
Location: St. Paul, MN
Schedule: Starting January 6th
More information call 651.266.1000
Sexual Violence Center
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Schedule: Starting January 6th
Tuesday and Thursday from 6-9pm and Saturday from 10am-4pm
Contact person: Katherine Bisanz, Program Director kbisanz@sexualviolencecenter.org
Rape and Abuse Crisis Center
Location: Fargo-Moorhead
Schedule: Starting February 7
Contact person: Nancy at nancy@raccfm.com
Program to Aid Victims of Sexual Assault (PAVSA)
Location: Duluth
Schedule: TBA
Contact person: Jude at jfoster@pavsa.org
360 Communities
Location: Burnsville
Schedule: Mondays and Wednesdays 6-9pm (March 16 - April 29)
Contact: Carol Connelly 651-244-9826 or cconnelly@360communities.org
PreventConnect Web Conference Preventing the Harm, Promoting the Helpful: Healthy
Sexuality, Wednesday, January 21, 2015
National Crime Victim Law Institute is holding its 14th Annual Crime Victim Law Conference
on May 28-29, 2015.
National Center for Victims of Crime upcoming Trainings include Assisting Victims of Financial
Fraud, Civil Justice for Victims of Crime, Commercial Exploitation of Children, and others.
Office for Victim of Crime (OVC) training and technical assistance center
RESOURCES AND FYI
End Violence Against Women International website with trainings, technical assistance and
resources may be found here: http://www.evawintl.org/
To see information about a new study that shows that Minnesota’s DWI Court programs are
saving taxpayer money by reducing recidivism among targeted DWI offenders please look here.
Global Rights for Women’s temporary website is up and running.
National Institute for Justice’s latest Research in Brief, Teen Dating Violence: How Peers Can
Affect Risk and Protective Factors, may be found here.
Information about President Obama’s changes to immigration policy that may affect immigrant
survivors and their advocates may be found here.
Attorney General Eric Holder and the Office of Justice Programs’ Assistant Attorney General
Karol V. Mason launched the Violence Reduction Network a national comprehensive approach
to reduce violent crime in communities around the United States.
Crimes Against the Elderly, 2003 – 2013 from the Bureau of Justice Statistics is now available.
OVC and the Bureau of Justice Assistance Human Trafficking Task Force e-Guide.
The Minnesota Human Trafficking Taskforce’s website
National Criminal Justice Reference Service has a Weekly Accessions List that contains new
resources that are part of the NCJRS Library.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
The U.S. Office of Justice Programs (OJP) has various funding opportunities.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
To learn more about the following job opportunities, please check the websites or call these
organizations for more information:
New Horizons Crisis Center has positions open.
Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition is hiring a Membership & Outreach
Coordinator. Contact Debra Poitra at 651-646-4800 or dpoitra@miwsac.org.
Sexual Assault Services in Brainerd, MN is hiring a Sexual Assault Primary Prevention Educator
For a listing of employment positions in the domestic violence community, visit MCBW’s
website
Alliance for Justice has employment opportunities available across the U.S.
NEWS FROM THE COURT
DWI Courts to open in Norman, Polk, and Red Lake counties and Paul R. Scoggin appointed to
fill Fourth Judicial District Vacancy.
Court of Appeals:
Published Opinions
A13-1948, State of Minnesota, Respondent, vs. Michael Darron Ware, Appellant.
Dakota County District Court, Hon. David L. Knutson.
In the absence of egregious state conduct or a violation of Minnesota Rule of Professional
Conduct 4.2, police, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, may interview a represented
defendant outside the presence of counsel so long as the defendant, after being given his
Miranda rights, provides a knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver of his rights, including the
right to have counsel present during the interview.
Affirmed. Judge Carol A. Hooten.
Unpublished opinions:
A14-585,
State of Minnesota, Respondent, vs. Victor Dupree Whitehead, Appellant.
Reversed and remanded. Judge Louise Dovre Bjorkman.
Mower County District Court, Hon. Donald E. Rysavy.
Appellant challenges his sentence for first-degree burglary, arguing that the district court erred in
calculating his criminal-history score because it assigned him points for multiple out-of-state
convictions when the state did not prove that he would have received the same points if he had
committed the offenses in Minnesota. We reverse and remand.
A14-934,
State of Minnesota, Respondent, vs. Toni Ann Olmstead, Appellant.
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded. Judge Margaret H. Chutich.
Hennepin County District Court, Hon. Luis Bartolomei.
Appellant Toni Ann Olmstead challenges the district court’s imposition of consecutive 43-month
and 46-month prison sentences for a probation violation. Because we hold that the district court
correctly specified that both sentences were to run consecutively during the pertinent hearing, we
affirm in part. But because the district court used an incorrect criminal history score in
calculating the duration of the 46-month sentence, we reverse the imposition of that sentence and
remand for resentencing.
A14-753, Don Antione Jones, petitioner, Appellant, vs. State of Minnesota, Respondent.
Affirmed. Judge Natalie E. Hudson.
Ramsey County District Court, Hon. George Stephenson.
In this postconviction appeal seeking relief from his conviction of violating a domestic abuse nocontact order (DANCO), appellant argues that his conviction must be reversed because the
district court did not find beyond a reasonable doubt that he knowingly violated the DANCO
until after he filed his postconviction petition and that he is entitled to a new trial because the
judge abandoned his neutral role by extensively questioning him. We affirm.
A13-2164, State of Minnesota, Respondent, vs. Rosalind Rae Loggin, Appellant.
Reversed and remanded. Judge Peter M. Reyes, Jr.
Ramsey County District Court, Hon. Judith M. Tilsen.
Appellant Rosalind Rae Loggin argues that the district court erred by convicting her of grossmisdemeanor theft because the court’s findings do not support the legal conclusion that Loggin
committed the offense. Loggin also argues that she did not receive a valid stipulated-facts trial
under Minn. R. Crim. P. 26.01, subd. 3, because she did not make an intelligent waiver of her
trial rights. We reverse and remand.
The Minnesota Alliance on Crime offers no opinion on the quality of any of the trainings,
programs, or resources mentioned in this e-update. If you would like to include information in
future e-updates, email Deb at ed@mnallianceoncrime.org.