SENDING WRITTEN COMMUNICATION.
Known as the Criminal Code
The act spans §§ 609.01 to 609.912 (377 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case State v. Naylor (1991)
Most recently applied in State v. Cruz-Ramirez (August 2009)
1963 c 753 art 1 s 609 .085
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.
Subdivision 1. Definition of offense.
When the sending of a letter or other written communication is made an offense, the offense is complete upon deposit of the letter or communication in any official depository of mail or given to another for the purpose of delivery to the receiver.
Subd. 2. Venue.
The offense is committed in both the county in which the letter is so deposited or given and the county in which it is received by the person for whom it is intended.
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.