Making her first public appearance since deciding not to charge a man who was seen vandalizing six Tesla vehicles in Minneapolis, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty defended her decision.

A Minnesota state employee whose vandalism spree against Tesla vehicles inflicted more than $20,000 in damages will be escaping with a legal slap on the wrist. The police chief is outraged. Sane ...

Investigators say the incident began when a brother and sister got into an argument over the power of attorney for their mother, a patient at the hospital.

Tesla vandalism deserved a prosecutor who would draw a clear line against an act that was probably politically motivated. Instead it got Mary Moriarty.

Xinis was born in Mineola, New York, graduated from the University of Virginia and went to Yale Law School. She clerked for Judge Diana Gribbon Motz on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. She was ...