Bruce N. Ringstrom Jr.

I have focused my practice exclusively on criminal defense. With experience in more than 30 jury trials, I have secured not guilty verdicts in cases ranging from assault, DWI, misdemeanor theft, felony theft, and domestic assault, to criminal sexual conduct, burglary, attempted murder, and criminal vehicular homicide.

• Probation Violations

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• Credit Cards Accepted

Minnesota

Since 2009

North Dakota

Since 2016

Partner

Ringstrom DeKrey

2021 - Current

Owner

Ringstrom Law

2013 - 2021

Minnesota Public Defense

2009 - 2013

Hamline University School of Law

J.D. (2008)

2005 - 2008

Excellence for the Future Award in the Study of Jurisprudence

Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction

2007

I received the highest score in my jurisprudence class in law school.

Excellence for the Future Award for Law & Literature

Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction

2007

I received the highest score in my Law and Literature class in law school.

North Dakota Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Member

2017 - Current

State Bar Association of North Dakota

Member

2016 - Current

Minnesota State Bar Association  # 0389630

Member

2015 - Current

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Member

2012 - Current

Texting While Driving: A Case Study, Best Practices, and GPS Demonstrations of Mobile Devices and the Cloud (With John Carney)

Minnesota CLE

August 23, 2017

Is There a Conflict Between Restorative Justice and Due Process?, Practicing Restorative Justice Conference, Moorhead, MN

November 16, 2018

Minnesota State College & University - Minnesota State University, Moorhead

I led a panel discussion on the value of restorative justice, and the risks to due process that restorative justice may create.

Procedural Justice: Prioritizing the Legal Process Over Legal Outcomes, Concordia College Philosophy Colloquium, Moorhead, MN

January 19, 2018

Concordia College-Moorhead

I spoke to a group of philosophy students and professors on the need to ensure that every person charged with a crime gets the full amount of due process under the law.

Texting While Driving: A Case Study and Best Practices, Minnesota State Bar Association Criminal Justice Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota

August 23, 2017

Minnesota State Bar Association

This presentation detailed our use of digital mobile forensics in defending a criminal vehicular homicide case, in which I secured not guilty verdicts on all felonies for my client in a jury trial.

How Can You Defend Those People?, Philosophy For All, Fargo, ND

September 17, 2015

Philosophy For All

I presented on the philosophy of criminal defense.

Probation Violation Discovery: How to Get It And What To Do With It, Minnesota Public Defender Professional Development Weekend, Brainerd, MN

November 2, 2013

Minnesota Public Defense

I presented on securing the probationer's entire probation file, and cross examining the agent on its content.

Certified Specialist in Criminal Law

Minnesota State Bar Association

2020

Graduate, Public Defender Trial School

Office of the Minnesota Public Defender

2010