Minnesota Session Laws - 1983, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1983 

                        CHAPTER 139--H.F.No. 529
           An act relating to crimes; providing that acquittal or 
          conviction of the crime of kidnapping does not bar 
          conviction for any other crime committed during the 
          time of the victim's confinement; amending Minnesota 
          Statutes 1982, section 609.035; proposing new law 
          coded in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 609. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 609.035, is 
amended to read: 
    609.035 [CRIME PUNISHABLE UNDER DIFFERENT PROVISIONS.] 
    Except as provided in section 609.585 and section 2, if a 
person's conduct constitutes more than one offense under the 
laws of this state, he may be punished for only one of such the 
offenses and a conviction or acquittal of any one of them is a 
bar to prosecution for any other of them.  All such the offenses 
may, if prosecuted, shall be included in one prosecution which 
shall be stated in separate counts.  
    Sec. 2.  [609.251] [DOUBLE JEOPARDY; KIDNAPPING.] 
    A prosecution for or conviction of the crime of kidnapping 
is not a bar to conviction of any other crime committed during 
the time of the kidnapping.  
    Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Sections 1 and 2 are effective August 1, 1983, and apply to 
all crimes committed on or after that date. 
    Approved May 12, 1983