2005 Minnesota Statutes

     609.325 Defenses. 

    Subdivision 1.    No defense; solicited; not engaged.  
 It shall be no defense to a prosecution under section 609.322 
 that an individual solicited or induced to practice prostitution 
 or whose prostitution was promoted, did not actually engage in 
 prostitution.  

    Subd. 2.    Consent no defense.  Consent or mistake as 
 to age shall be no defense to prosecutions under section 609.322 
 or 609.324.  

    Subd. 3.    No defense; prior prostitution.  It shall be 
 no defense to actions under section 609.322 that the individual 
 solicited or induced to practice prostitution, or whose 
 prostitution was promoted, had engaged in prostitution prior to 
 that solicitation, inducement, or promotion.  

    Subd. 4.    Affirmative defense.  It is an affirmative 
 defense to a charge under section 609.324 if the defendant 
 proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant is 
 a labor trafficking victim, as defined in section 609.281, or a 
 sex trafficking victim, as defined in section 609.321, and that 
 the defendant committed the act only under compulsion by another 
 who by explicit or implicit threats created a reasonable 
 apprehension in the mind of the defendant that if the defendant 
 did not commit the act, the person would inflict bodily harm 
 upon the defendant.  

    HIST: 1979 c 255 s 5; 1994 c 636 art 2 s 29; 1998 c 367 art 2 
 s 32; 2005 c 136 art 17 s 25