If an act or omission in this state constitutes a crime under both the laws of this state and the laws of another jurisdiction, a conviction or acquittal of the crime in the other jurisdiction shall not bar prosecution for the crime in this state unless the elements of both law and fact are identical.
Minn. Stat. § 609.045
FOREIGN CONVICTION OR ACQUITTAL.
Known as the Criminal Code
The act spans §§ 609.01 to 609.912 (377 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 55 Cal. 4th 816 - People v. Homick (2012)
Most recently applied in State v. Castillo-Alvarez (September 2013)
1963 c 753 art 1 s 609 .045; 1983 c 152 s 1
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Minnesota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.