Reporter | Hennepin County courts

Jeff Day is a Hennepin County courts reporter for the Star Tribune. He previously worked as a sports reporter and editor.


Special counsel hired by Moriarty bills $578K for work in trooper Londregan case

Washington D.C.-based law firm Steptoe spent 733 hours on the case


After SWAT standoff, Edina surgeon charged with threatening family members

Jeffrey Paul Sanderson was charged with felony threats of violence following several domestic situations.


Two Texas men charged with robbing ATM of $215,000 as it was serviced in Brooklyn Park

The robbery may be part of a larger trend of tracking ATM technician vehicles, then following them until an ATM is opened.


Hennepin County Attorney's Office will no longer charge pregnant women for using drugs

Touting the policy change as a public health initiative, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said this is part of a continued effort to change how the county approaches substance abuse.


Minnesota appeals court overturns conviction of man who said he 'thought about raping' victim

The reversal stemmed from a legal statute which says that the state must present evidence independent of a confession to prove that a specific crime actually occurred.


Charges: Shooter fired from behind fence, killed north Minneapolis man in his car

Police used surviellance video and phone records to place Dameon Markese Collins at the scene of the murder of Carl Maurice Woodard last month.


Lawsuit: Man in crisis left unresponsive, covered in blood and feces in Dakota County jail

Caleb Duffy was arrested for probable cause domestic assault on the Fourth of July in 2022. A lawsuit alleges that over 50 hours in custody, county and medical personnel largely stood by as his mental and physical health rapidly deteriorated.


Minnesota Supreme Court: State Patrol can be sued over unprovoked K-9 attack

The ruling reverses an earlier Appeals Court ruling that the agency held sovereign immunity from litigation under the state's dog bite statute.


After second evaluation, man found competent to stand trial in brutal Loring Park murder

Earlier this year, Taylor Justin Schulz was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial in the murder of Robert Skafte, a beloved clerk at the Oak Grove Grocery in Loring Park.


Hopkins man pleads guilty to murdering his girlfriend days after he was released from jail for abusing her

He admitted killing Danicka Bergeson in her apartment, despite a no-contact order, leaving her body for days.