Kelly J. Keegan, Esq. is a partner/shareholder at Brandt Criminal Defense and has been with the firm since its inception in 2005. In that time she has been lead defense counsel on hundreds of cases of all types and levels, ranging from serious felonies to minor traffic offenses. Additionally, Kelly handles post-conviction matters such as expungement, probation violations, reinstatement of the right to possess firearms, and sentence modification motions. She has represented clients under investigation prior to being formally charged, as well as clients facing grand jury indictment. Kelly is admitted to practice in Minnesota State Court as well as Federal United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. She enjoys working in the courtroom and has obtained excellent results for clients, including dismissal of charges, suppression of evidence, and acquittal by felony jury.
Kelly is an executive board member of the Minnesota Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, a group of prominent defense attorneys throughout the State of Minnesota who work to impact policy and legislation on behalf of criminal defendants. In that role she has testified before Minnesota State Senate and Minnesota State House of Representatives Committees at the Minnesota State Capitol on legislative initiatives impacting crime and public safety. She has been extremely active in working to reform expungement law in Minnesota.
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Section I. Collateral Consequences: Why These Topics are Relevant
a) Criminal records in the digital age
b) Firearms restrictions
Section II. Background Checks and Data Harvesting
a) How and when background checks are conducted
b) Federal regulations on background checks
c) Remedies for inaccurate or incomplete information
Section III. Efforts to Restore a Clean Criminal History
a) Ban the Box
b) Expungement
i. Overview of states
ii. Federal cases
iii. Practice tips
c) Certificates of rehabilitation and good conduct
d) Employer incentives and immunity laws
e) Clean up of records after expungement
f) Mugshots.com
g) Media coverage
Section IV. Federal Firearms Prohibitions
a) Domestic assaults
b) Felonies
c) Mental health
Section V. Restoration of Federal Firearms Rights
a) Expungement
b) Pardon
c) State restoration of rights
d) The Voluntary Appeal File (VAF) process
