mary moriarty is the elected Hennepin County, Minnesota Attorney. She is a left wing lunatic with a penchant for championing the “rights” of criminals over decent law-abiding people.
marvin haynes is a convicted murderer who spent almost 20 years in jail, until mary moriarty sprung him on what appears to be the most flimsy, seemingly illegal, grounds…and then sued Minnesota and “won” a 4.5 million dollar judgment against the state, even though he was found guilty by a jury and the suit he filed was way beyond the statute of limitations.
Does that read like some kind of grotesque fairy tale? I’d say so. But it is all true.
Read David Zimmer’s article at americanexperiment.org and see for yourself (the bold print is mine). Here are just a couple of key excerpts:
During the final week of the 2026 legislative session, the joint House-Senate Subcommittee on Claims identified the tort claims against the state that it recommended be paid out. This year, there were four claims approved, totaling $5.1 million. The full House and Senate approved the Claims bill last week, and Governor Walz approved the compensation payments with his signature yesterday.
One of those claims totaled $4.5 million — to be paid to Marvin Haynes, who was imprisoned for nearly 20 years after being convicted of murdering a flower shop owner during a robbery in North Minneapolis in 2004. Haynes was sentenced to life in prison for the murder, but the sentence was vacated nearly 20 years later following a questionable process.
In January 2023, Mary Moriarty was elected as the Hennepin County Attorney. Later that summer, Marvin Haynes filed a petition for post-conviction relief, despite being over 15 years past the legal deadline to do so — an issue county attorneys should oppose in their role in the adversarial justice system.
Not Mary Moriarty — she not only didn’t oppose Haynes petition, she joined it by working in concert with the Great Northern Innocence Project (GNIP) to hold a hearing to relitigate the facts of Haynes’s conviction 20 years after the fact — a conviction that had already been upheld by the Minnesota Court of Appeals in 2006 and the Minnesota Supreme Court in 2007.
Following the hearing in December 2023, Moriarty filed a joint proposed order with the GNIP for the judge to sign that vacated Haynes’s conviction. Haynes was set free that day. He subsequently filed suit against the State of Minnesota for compensation under the Imprisonment and Exoneration Remedies Act.
I wrote a comprehensive article in December 2023 detailing the injustices carried out during the process to overturn Haynes’s conviction. Given the outrageous taxpayer-funded compensation now being awarded to Haynes, it’s appropriate to reprint that article in its entirety.
I urge you to click on the link and read the comprehensive article mentioned above. If you have any sense of justice – and basic sanity – you’ll have trouble believing this could have happened.
But this is today’s Minnesota.
And as long as the voters there keep electing people like tim walz and mary moriarty, it is going to stay that way.
