HF 814

as introduced - 79th Legislature (1995 - 1996) 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; proposing coding for 
  1.6             new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 244. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  [244.096] [SENTENCING GUIDELINES MODIFICATION; 
  1.9   MITIGATED SENTENCING DEPARTURES.] 
  1.10     The commission shall modify the sentencing guidelines to 
  1.11  provide that courts may not justify a mitigated sentencing 
  1.12  departure on the basis that the defendant is amenable to 
  1.13  treatment or probation.