Legal Opinion
Braylock v. Jesson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided August 8, 2012No. A10-1754PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
STRAS, Justice.
The question presented in this case is whether a statutory amendment to Minn. Stat. § 253B.19, subd. 2(d), effective on August 1, 2010, applies to appellant Ben Braylock’s November 2008 petition for provisional or full discharge from civil commitment as a sexually dangerous offender. Braylock argues that retroactive application of the amended statute to his petition is improper because the amendment introduced a new, higher burden for a petitioner seeking provisional or full discharge than the version of the statute that was operative when he filed his petition. The…
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