The decision to offer or agree to a continuance of a criminal prosecution is an exercise of prosecutorial discretion resting solely with the prosecuting attorney.
Minn. Stat. § 609.132
CONTINUANCE FOR DISMISSAL.
Known as the Criminal Code
The act spans §§ 609.01 to 609.912 (377 sections).
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case State v. C.P.H. (2006)
Most recently applied in State of Minnesota v. Jeffrey Bruce Martin (July 2014)
1994 c 636 art 2 s 15
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.