Three Strikes and Habitual Offender Laws in Minnesota

Minnesota's repeat offender law for 'violent crimes' (a list of felonies that includes first-degree murder and other homicide, assault, sexual and serious drug crimes): a person convicted of a violent felony with two or more prior violent felony convictions must receive at least the presumptive Sentencing Guidelines prison term, executed in prison, with no probation, parole, discharge or work release until the full term is served. The judge may also go up to the statutory maximum for a dangerous offender (age 18 or older, two or more prior violent crimes, and found to be a danger to public safety), and for a person with five or more prior felonies whose new felony is part of a pattern of criminal conduct.