More funds head to Minn. attorney general, public defenders

More funds head to Minn. attorney general, public defenders

The House voted to give the Minnesota AG's office a quick $269,000 from the state's $17.6 billion budget surplus and an extra $2 million a year thereafter.

More funds head to Minn. attorney general, public defenders

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Millions of extra dollars are working their way through the Minnesota Legislature to both beef up the ability of Attorney General Keith Ellison's office to prosecute violent crime and the state's public defender system to relieve the staffing shortages that nearly led to a strike last year.

More funds head to Minn. attorney general, public defenders

ST. PAUL, Minn.

More funds head to Minn. attorney general, public defenders

ST. PAUL, Minn.

More funds head to Minn. attorney general, public defenders

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Millions of extra dollars are working their way through the Minnesota Legislature to beef up the ability of Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office to prosecute violent crime. The Democratic attorney general had been unable for four years to persuade a divided Legislature to give him more money to add more prosecutors. Now that Democrats control both chambers, Ellison is eager to get tha…

More funds head to Minn. attorney general, public defenders

Millions of extra dollars are working their way through the Minnesota Legislature to beef up the ability of Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office to prosecute violent crime. The Democratic attorney