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Good people can find themselves facing DWI or other criminal charges. The legal system is complex and difficult to understand. You probably don’t know where to start. An experienced and knowledgeable criminal attorney can help you understand your charges, any potential defenses, and all of your rights.
Rodd Tschida, J.D.
Professional & Experienced Criminal Law Attorney


Why choose our firm


We Have The Experience You Need
We recommend that your Minnesota criminal defense lawyer have roughly 20 years of experience practicing criminal law in the State of Minnesota. This is because state law has changed so much from 15 or 20 years ago. Thus, having a lawyer deeply involved in the practice of criminal law over this particular time frame will be of most benefit to today’s client.

We Relish the Thought of Research and Writing on Your Behalf
There can be no doubt that the most successful ingredient in winning criminal cases is spotting issues, and research and writing those issues. Rather than save these efforts for the rare client, we believe that every case has issues that require legal research. Our skills and enthusiasm in this area are unsurpassed. In fact, many very experienced Minnesota criminal lawyers often consult our firm with regard to legal issues in their clients' cases. This surfaced once again recently when Mr. Tschida discovered legal errors with respect to the Minnesota Implied Consent Advisory.

We Take Only a Limited Number of Cases
We will turn away a prospective client if we are too busy. Perhaps the number one disappointment criminal defendants have is that their lawyer was not attentive to their case. A prime example of this was the statewide source-code (Intoxilyzer) litigation. When that litigation ended in defeat, we had no pressure to resolve dozens upon dozens of cases at the same time, which was not at all conducive to successful outcomes for many of these defendants. In fact, most of our source-code clients later won their DWI cases on other grounds because of our Client-based decision to take on a limited number of those cases.