Viewing Court Procedures Category (5) found:"Jury Sequestration in 1850."On September 12, 1849, Isaiah McMillan shot and killed Heman Snow in St. Paul. McMillan was tried in Stillwater in February, 1850, and found guilty of manslaughter. During the trial, Judge David Cooper ordered the jury sequestered, which provoked a colorful commentary by James Goodhue in "The Minnesota Pioneer" on February 27, 1850. Charles C. Willson: "Citations." (1894)In December, 1894, "The Minnesota Law Journal" published a long letter to the editor from Charles C. Willson, the official reporter of the Minnesota Reports. Willson was "vexed" and exasperated by the "loose" pleading habits and citation practices of the bar. In his letter, Willson advised lawyers to give the full names of the parties in their pleadings and cite authorities in a way that they can be found by the court and used by other practitioners. Douglas A. Hedin: "Advisory Opinions of the Territorial Supreme Court, 1852-1854." (2009)During Minnesota's territorial period, and for several years after statehood, a law authorizing the legislature to request advisory opinions from the supreme court was in effect. It provided:
Charles E. Flandrau: "Contempt of Court." (1895)Reacting to criticism of the judiciary in the wake of the Pullman Strike, Charles E. Flandrau published this brief essay on the importance of maintaining the courts' contempt power in the January, 1895, issue of "The Minnesota Law Journal." "Memoranda" (1893).This article provides a glimpse of how some trial judges operated in the state in the 1890s. The author urged trial judges to prepare and attach memoranda to their orders, explaining their reasoning. Without such a written explanation, the author laments, "Half the time the defeated party does not know and has no means, save asking the judge, of obtaining any knowledge as to which of several points raised and argued on the hearing, was decisive against him."
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