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Accreditation and CLE Rules for Minnesota
National Academy of Continuing Legal Education is an approved Sponsor (10551) of CLE, recognized by the Minnesota Board of Continuing Legal Education.
Minnesota attorneys are required to take 45 credit hours every 3 years including 3 credit hours of Ethics, 2 credit hours of Elimination of Bias and 1 credit hour of Mental Health/Substance Use.
Effective January 1, 2024, there is no limit to the number of on-demand CLE credits a Minnesota lawyer may report towards their three-year reporting period. Approved courses viewed after January 1, 2024, towards the 2024 reporting period (or later) are not subject to a credit cap.
Beginning July 1, 2024, MN attorneys are required to take 1 credit in Mental Health/Substance Use. Category 2 lawyers due to report in 2025 will be the first group of lawyers subject to this requirement.
Minnesota attorneys can earn all 45 CLE credit hours with us including 3 credit hours of Ethics, 2 credit hours of Elimination of Bias and 1 credit hour of Mental Health/Substance Use using our Online & iOS/Android App courses.
All Minnesota licensed attorneys are assigned to one of three reporting groups for CLE purposes. Attorneys can find their assigned reporting group in the upper left-hand corner of their wallet licenses.
Category 1: July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2021 & July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024
Category 2: July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2022 & July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025
Category 3: July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2023 & July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026
Minnesota Board of Continuing Legal Education
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180 East 5th Street, Suite 950
St. Paul, MN 55101
651-297-7100
New Marijuana Legislation & Vehicular Search & Seizures: Lingering Odor Of Marijuana as Probable Cause & Residue
CLE Courses Available Online and with iOS/Android App!
General Credits
1
For Access To This Course
About This Course
This course is intended to provide tools with which criminal defense attorneys can, under the New NYS Marijuana Legislation, the “Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act", utilize from its new search and seizure protections regarding alleged odor of marijuana as alleged probable cause to conduct a vehicle search.
We will focus particularly on the recent case of In the Matter of POLICE DEPARTMENT v. XAVIER J. WILLIAMS; Joan R. Salzman, Administrative Law Judge, which retroactively applied these protections to an arrest which occurred prior to the enactment of the law.
With the ever increasing legalization of marijuana throughout the county, these vehicular Search & Seizure arguments can made even in states which do not have such statutory protections yet.
