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Minnesota Sanction for Sex Offender Treatment Refusal Violates Fifth Amendment

Loaded on Oct. 15, 2007 published in Prison Legal News October, 2007, page 14
Filed under: Legality of Rules, Self Incrimination, Mental Health, Sex Offender Treatment. Location: Minnesota.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals held that disciplining a prisoner and extending his prison sentence for refusal to participate in sex offender treatment was a violation of the Fifth Amendment. The appellate court concluded that State ex rel. Morrow v. LaFleur, 590 N.W. 2d 787, 792 (Minn. 1999) was effectively …

 

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