HF 187

as introduced - 80th Legislature (1997 - 1998) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act
  1.2             relating to sentencing; requiring the sentencing 
  1.3             guidelines commission to prohibit the use of 
  1.4             amenability to treatment or probation as a reason for 
  1.5             mitigated sentencing departures. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  [SENTENCING GUIDELINES MODIFICATION; MITIGATED 
  1.8   SENTENCING DEPARTURES.] 
  1.9      The sentencing guidelines commission shall modify the 
  1.10  sentencing guidelines to provide that courts may not justify a 
  1.11  mitigated sentencing departure on the basis that the defendant 
  1.12  is amenable to treatment or probation.