State v. Bush

AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

Petitioner was convicted in Ramsey County District Court in 1977 of criminal sexual conduct in the second degree, Minn. Stat. § 609.343(a) (1976) (sexual contact with a child under 13 years of age by a person more than 36 months older), and was given a limited term of 10 years in prison, rather than the statutory maximum of 15, with execution stayed on the condition that he complete a long-term treatment program for sex offenders at the security hospital at St. Peter. When he failed and was dropped from the program in 1978, his probation was revoked and the original…