About Zachary Bauer
Zachary Bauer practices criminal defense and personal injury law from Meshbesher and Spence's Rochester office. He began his career as a public defender, later served as a prosecutor in Olmsted County, and has been in private criminal defense practice since 2006. Over more than 15 years he has represented clients throughout southeastern Minnesota charged with DUI, domestic assault, drug offenses, criminal sexual conduct, and theft, prevailing in dozens of jury trials. He also assists clients in seeking to seal or expunge past convictions. He holds a B.A. from Luther College (2000) and a J.D. from Hamline University (2003) and lives in Rochester with his family.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Meshbesher & Spence
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A Dakota County jury awarded Jeffrey Wu and his wife $18.4 million after his 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee's defective monostable gear shifter caused a rollaway that crushed his left leg and required amputation.
Thirteen years after Minneapolis florist Robert Nachtsheim was shot and killed in an officially unsolved homicide, a Hennepin County jury found businessman Norman Wartnick civilly liable and awarded his widow $2,350,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, a verdict the Minnesota Court of Appeals affirmed in 1987.
Dakota County paid $2.25 million to settle a wrongful death suit brought by Tory Hart after county child protection workers recommended reuniting his six-year-old son with the mother, who fatally shot the child ten days after a court terminated its jurisdiction.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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