State v. Jones

OPINION

GILBERT, Justice.

This case involves review of a court of appeals decision that the addition of a 10- year conditional release term to respondent Jela DeShaun Jones’s 15-year sentence for third-degree criminal sexual conduct violated the constitutional rule announced in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000). Á Le Sueur County jury found Jones guilty of two counts of criminal sexnal conduct in the third degree. The district court sentenced Jones to a 15-year sentence using the patterned and predatory sex offender statute, Minn.Stat. § 609.108, subd.…