Notwithstanding section 609.04 , a prosecution for or conviction of the crime of kidnapping is not a bar to conviction of or punishment for any other crime committed during the time of the kidnapping.
Minn. Stat. § 609.251
DOUBLE JEOPARDY; KIDNAPPING.
Known as the Criminal Code
The act spans §§ 609–609 (377 sections).
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case State v. Swanson (1993)
Most recently applied in Wells v. State (December 2013)
1983 c 139 s 2; 1993 c 326 art 4 s 16
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.