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     609.025 Jurisdiction of state.  

    A person may be convicted and sentenced under the law of 
 this state if the person: 

    (1)  Commits an offense in whole or in part within this 
 state; or 

    (2) Being without the state, causes, aids or abets another 
 to commit a crime within the state; or 

    (3) Being without the state, intentionally causes a result 
 within the state prohibited by the criminal laws of this state.  

    It is not a defense that the defendant's conduct is also a 
 criminal offense under the laws of another state or of the 
 United States or of another country.  

    HIST: 1963 c 753 art 1 s 609.025; Ex1971 c 27 s 44; 1986 c 444 

Copyright 2005 by the Office of Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota.