Every defendant in a criminal action is presumed innocent until the contrary is proved and, in case of a reasonable doubt, is entitled to acquittal; and when an offense has been proved against the defendant, and there exists a reasonable doubt as to which of two or more degrees the defendant is guilty, the defendant shall be convicted only of the lowest.
Minn. Stat. § 611.02
PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE; CONVICTION OF LOWEST DEGREE, WHEN.
Known as the Incarceration and Exoneration Remedies Act
The act spans §§ 611–611 (61 sections).
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case State v. Moore (1992)
Most recently applied in Rossberg v. State (July 2019)
(9952) RL s 4784; 1986 c 444
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.