Bill Text: MN SF102 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree penalty increase

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-24 - Referred to Judiciary and Public Safety [SF102 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2011-SF102-Introduced.html

1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to crime; increasing the penalty for criminal sexual conduct in the first
1.3degree;amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 609.342, subdivision 2.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5    Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 609.342, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.6    Subd. 2. Penalty. (a) Except as otherwise provided in section 609.3455; or
1.7Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 609.109, a person convicted under subdivision 1 may
1.8be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 30 years or to a payment of a fine of
1.9not more than $40,000, or both.
1.10(b) Unless a longer mandatory minimum sentence is otherwise required by law
1.11or the Sentencing Guidelines provide for a longer presumptive executed sentence, the
1.12court shall presume that an executed sentence of 144 300 months must be imposed on an
1.13offender convicted of violating this section. Sentencing a person in a manner other than
1.14that described in this paragraph is a departure from the Sentencing Guidelines.
1.15(c) A person convicted under this section is also subject to conditional release under
1.16section 609.3455.
1.17EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2011, for crimes committed
1.18on or after that date.
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