No lawyer can (or should) guarantee a favorable outcome in any case. Yet many criminal charges result in either dismissal or acquittal. Judge Hamilton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has written that as many as 30 percent, and perhaps nearly 50 percent, of people who are arrested are not ultimately convicted of a crime.

Tim Phillips has experience representing people in high-profile misdemeanor and felony cases. For example, he won an acquittal in 2021 in the first case from the Treaty People Gathering to go to trial. Previously, in two trespassing cases he took to trial related to different Black Lives Matter demonstrations, the juries returned not guilty verdicts.    

Tim has also received favorable opinions from the Minnesota Court of Appeals in cases where his clients ended up being acquitted at trial or had their charges dismissed.

In addition, Tim has represented college students charged with violating the student conduct code. For example, two of his clients occupied the President of the University of Minnesota’s office for more than seven hours in February 2015; but after Tim represented them at a six-hour trial, they were found not guilty of violating the sections of the student conduct code at issue.