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What Crimes Land You on the Minnesota Sex Offender Registry?

Category: Sex Crimes | Sex Offender Registry

One of the most severe consequences of a sex crime conviction remains long after your prison sentence is complete: the requirement to register as a sex offender.

Sex offender registration is associated with a very negative stigma, and it may result in the mistrust or even loss of your friends, family, and neighbors. Sex offender registration also restricts your privacy, housing prospects, employment opportunities, and more.

Regardless of the relative severity of your offense, if you are

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What Might Removing MN’s Statute of Limitations for Sex Offenses Mean?

Published By: Chris Keyser

Category: Sex Crimes

A potential change is coming to Minnesota that would remove the statute of limitations for some sex offenses in our state. This change would allow people to report incidents decades after they occurred.

What is it specifically?

Last month, Minnesota lawmakers considered a bill that would allow victims to report felony sex crimes with no matter when they occurred. The bill is called H3434, and it has one sponsor and 22 cosponsors in the House. The

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Sex Crime Charge in Minnesota? Defense Strategies That Can Help

Published By: Chris Keyser

Category: Sex Crimes

Many different acts are considered sex crimes in Minnesota, but you wouldn’t know that from our laws.

While most states have a variety of uniquely named criminal sexual statutes on the books – sexual assault, sexual battery, and so on – our state uses the umbrella term “criminal sexual conduct” for most illegal sexual acts. There are exceptions, such as prostitution, but most violations fall under one of the five degrees of criminal sexual conduct defined

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What Is Next for Minnesota’s Much-Maligned Sex Offender Program?

Published By: Chris Keyser

Category: Sex Crimes

Minnesota has one of the toughest sex crime punishment systems in the United States. First, convicted sex offenders face long prison sentences. Then, some may be required to enter a treatment program… with no specified release date.

After quite a bit of recent controversy, however, several lawmakers are now working to revise the program requirements and ease the restrictions on convicted sex offenders. Here’s an explanation of the program itself, the legal processes at play, and what to expect

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When Teen Dating in Minnesota Can Be a Crime

Published By: Chris Keyser

Category: Juvenile Law | Sex Crimes

When you’re young and in love, you don’t always think about the legalities of your relationship. However, Minnesota takes teen dating seriously, especially if there’s too big of an age gap between the couple.

Recently, two teenagers – both considered juveniles by the law – were charged with felony offenses in Becker County in northwestern Minnesota due to their relationship.

The specific reason? Their relationship had turned sexual, and that sexual contact is illegal within the confines of

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How Minnesota Prosecutors Get Sexual Assault Convictions

Published By: Chris Keyser

Category: Sex Crimes | Sexual Assault

In our country, sexual assault and rape are taken seriously. Not only can a conviction put you behind bars, but it can also affect everything else in your personal and professional life.

Here in Minnesota, we refer to sexual assault and rape as criminal sexual conduct, with five different degree classifications. If you’ve been charged with any degree of criminal sexual conduct, it’s important to understand your charges and penalties so you can then understand what prosecutors

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Hermantown Man Receives Longest Sentence Ever for Sex Crimes

Published By: Chris Keyser

Category: Sex Crimes | Sexual Assault

There have been many stories in the news recently about sex offenders who have received only a few months in prison or otherwise “light” sentences. When these stories come out, they tend to stay in the news for a while, and often people protest over the injustice of it or even try to implement laws to make punishments for sex offenders more severe.

In Minnesota, however, the headlines right now are telling a completely different story. In Hermantown earlier

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