Press Conference Notice and Press Release
Press Conference
Date/Time: 2-4-2013 – 1:00 P.M.
Where: Room 181
of the State Office Building
What:
Press Conference regarding the filing of a federal civil rights lawsuit
against the State of Minnesota and
its agents
Contact: Nathan
Hansen (651-216-6044) or Alan Milstein (856)-661-2078
Press Release
Minneapolis, Minnesota
(U.S.A) – Today, Saint Paul attorney Nathan Hansen and New Jersey attorney Alan
Milstein filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Minneapolis on behalf of
Forest Olivier, Michael Bounds, Wia Day, Adam Laguna, Daniel Bell and Zachary
Lorenz against the State of Minnesota,
the Minnesota State Patrol and various law enforcement entities and personnel
involved in what is known as the
Drug Recognition Evaluators Program
which was suspended due to the activity described in the Complaint.
The
two-count Complaint alleges that these defendants designed and implemented a
pernicious human research experiment exposing young people from minority and/or
disadvantaged backgrounds to various illegal drugs in an effort use these
individuals as human guinea pigs for the benefit of law enforcement. The experiment, of course, had no scientific or
forensic validity, and could never have been approved as competent human
research. But not only was the experiment unethical by design, the defendants
conducted their research without the informed consent of the human subjects,
thus violating the most essential ethical requirements which form the basis of
our laws and regulations governing human subject research.
Mr. Hansen practices in the field of Civil Litigation,
Bankruptcy and Criminal Defense. Mr. Milstein is a nationally recognized
litigator who has been a pioneer in the field of representing human subjects
injured in unethical research experiments.
