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609.025 Jurisdiction of state.

A person may be convicted and sentenced under the law of this state if the person:

(1) Commits an offense in whole or in part within this state; or

(2) Being without the state, causes, aids or abets another to commit a crime within the state; or

(3) Being without the state, intentionally causes a result within the state prohibited by the criminal laws of this state.

It is not a defense that the defendant's conduct is also a criminal offense under the laws of another state or of the United States or of another country.

HIST: 1963 c 753 art 1 s 609.025; Ex1971 c 27 s 44; 1986 c 444

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