Reynolds v. State
Annotate this CaseIn 2008, Respondent pleaded guilty to failing to register as a predatory offender. The district court sentenced Respondent to one year and one day in prison. In 2009, the district court sua sponte modified Respondent’s sentence to include a ten-year conditional release term. More than four years later, Respondent brought a motion under Minn. R. Crim. P. 27.03(9) to correct his sentence, arguing that the conditional release term violated Blakely v. Washington. The district court treated Respondent’s motion as a petition for postconviction relief and determined that the expiration of the two-year limitations period in the postconviction statute required the dismissal of Respondent’s claim. The court of appeals reversed, concluding that Respondent’s challenge to his conditional release term could be brought at any time because it fell within the scope of Rule 27.03(9) and that the imposition of the conditional release term violated Respondent’s Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) Respondent’s challenge was properly brought under Rule 27.03(9); and (2) applying the two-year limitations period in the postconviction statute to a motion brought under Rule 27.03(9) violates the separation of powers.
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