CASE DISMISSED (2024)
1st degree criminal sexual conduct
St. Louis County, MN 
The client was facing a presumptive 12 years of prison. The case was dismissed prior to trial even starting in the interests of justice. The client did not have to spend even one day in jail.
CASE DISMISSED (2024)
5th degree assault, disorderly conduct, and trespass
Ramsey County, MN
The client was charged with a slew of crimes that sounded bad, but was far more complicated than it initially appeared. He was kicked out of college hockey game being played at Xcel Energy Center for foul language. You may be asking, isn’t foul language a part of the game? That would be a fair question. The client exited the arena and then re-entered the arena and was alleged to have pushed a security guard. Leading to the three charges. Re-entering the arena to argue with the security guard may not have been the best choice. But there was evidence suggesting the security guard was the first person to lay his hands on the client before the client put up his hands to defend himself. Peter Lindstrom leveraged the facts to negotiate it down to diversion with the entire case being dismissed after completing diversion.
NO JAIL (2024)
3rd lifetime DWI
Ramsey County, MN
The client was facing his third lifetime DWI. In his previous DWI conviction, he had received 10 days of jail and 20 days of electronic home monitoring. It was expected that he would receive similar or worse sanctions in this case. But Peter was able to negotiate a plea agreement that included no jail and no electronic home monitoring.
CHARGES LOWERED (2024)
5th degree assault down to disorderly conduct
Morrison County, MN 
The client was facing 5th degree assaults charges related to a fist fight that resulted in injuries to the complaining witness. The complaining witness told the police an exaggerated story that the police bought whole cloth. Peter Lindstrom was able to leverage the facts to show how much that this was closer to a mutual confrontation than the exaggerated story the complaining witness claimed it was. A plea agreement was negotiated where the 5th degree assault charges would be dismissed and the client would receive a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge for being loud and boisterous instead. The client was able to keep a violent conviction off his record.
CHARGES LOWERED (2024)
Domestic assault down to disorderly conduct
Ramsey County, MN
The client got into a fight with his girlfriend. The client was dead to rights. There was a witness that saw everything. But Peter Lindstrom leveraged the client’s character to show that this was one isolated mistake in an otherwise exemplary life. Peter was able to negotiate the case down to a disorderly conduct under the loud and boisterous subdivision.
NO CONVICTION (2024)
Domestic assault
Isanti County, MN
The client was alleged to have punches his girlfriend in the face. Peter leveraged evidence about the fight being more of a mutual altercation than what the State’s theory was to get a plea negotiation that avoids a conviction. The client is an avid hunter and was very grateful to reach a result where he would get to keep his firearm rights.
NO JAIL (2024)
1st Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct
Ramsey County, MN
The client was facing a presumptive 12 years of prison. The only way the judge could deviate from the 12 years of prison was if the judge found extraordinary and compelling reasons to grant a downward departure from the presumptive sentence. Peter filed a lengthy motion for downward departure with citations to scholarly articles on recidivism rates for people in the low-risk category. Peter also leveraged the facts of extenuating circumstances in the case. The client confessed to the crime and was extremely remorseful over what he had done. He was 19 years old, black out drunk, and only had a hazy memory of the night. It had been 6 years since the offense, and he had not engaged in any criminal behavior since. This does not excuse the crime. But the question of what to do with a young man in this situation is different than what to do with a hardened criminal whose actions were intentional. The judge was initially planning to send the client to jail, but only after thorough advocacy from Peter, the judge granted the downward departure. The judge commented on the record, “It almost makes me sick to do this (grant the departure),” because of the seriousness of the crime. But the judge followed the compelling arguments of Peter in allowing the defendant to return to be the breadwinner for his family instead of going to prison for 12 years.
NO JAIL (2024)
3rd degree criminal sexual conduct
Ramsey County, MN
The client was facing a presumptive 4 years of prison. But a plea was negotiated that put a cap of 180 days of jail. Peter Lindstrom filed a motion arguing for 0 days of jail. Peter prevailed in the motion because the judge ordered community work service instead of jail.
CASED DISMISSED (2023)
Felony gun possession
Dakota County, MN
The client was facing mandatory minimum of 5 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Peter Lindstrom filed a motion to suppress and dismiss because the warrantless search of his motor vehicle was in violation of his 4th amendment rights. These are difficult to win. But Peter wrote such a powerful motion that the prosecutor decided it wasn’t even worth bringing before a judge and dismissed the case outright. The client cried tears of joy when he learned that the case was being dismissed.