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609.27.1

Statute ID: 17070

Statute Function ID: 35660

Coercion

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Statute Number:

609.27.1

Enactment Date:

May 17, 2018

Effective Date:

Aug 1, 2018

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Coercion

Statute ID:

17070

Created:

Jul 18, 2018 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Jul 18, 2018 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

Added

Legal Analyst Comment:

New statute/reference ids for as a result of 2018 amendment to 609.3241. Subd. 1 now incomplete

Summary Text:

Coercion

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/609/27.html

Legislative Session:

2018 - Regular

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Jul 18, 2018

Whoever orally or in writing makes any of the following threats and thereby causes another against the other's will to do any act or forbear doing a lawful act is guilty of coercion and may be sentenced as provided in subdivision 2:
 
(1) a threat to unlawfully inflict bodily harm upon, or hold in confinement, the person threatened or another, when robbery or attempt to rob is not committed thereby; or

(2) a threat to unlawfully inflict damage to the property of the person threatened or another; or

(3) a threat to unlawfully injure a trade, business, profession, or calling; or

(4) a threat to expose a secret or deformity, publish a defamatory statement, or otherwise to expose any person to disgrace or ridicule; or

(5) a threat to make or cause to be made a criminal charge, whether true or false; provided, that a warning of the consequences of a future violation of law given in good faith by a peace officer or prosecuting attorney to any person shall not be deemed a threat for the purposes of this section; or

(6) a threat to commit a violation under section 617.261.