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Annual Summary
Following are sentencing practice reports issued by MSGC staff annually. The Sentencing Practices: Annual Summary Statistics for Felony Cases reports contain information on felony cases sentenced in Minnesota. The reports below that focus on felony crimes of interest by topic. Much of the information found in these reports is year-specific, based on the most recent years' sentencing practices data. The reports also contain some trend information on sentencing practices over time.
2021 Sentencing Practices Data Reports:
Sentencing Practices: Annual Summary Statistics for Felony Cases
Controlled Substance Offenses
Unranked Offenses and Aiding Offender Accomplice After the Fact
Sex Offenses
2020 Sentencing Practices Data Reports:
Sentencing Practices: Annual Summary Statistics for Felony Cases
2019 Sentencing Practices Data Reports:
Sentencing Practices: Annual Summary Statistics for Felony Cases
Controlled Substance Offenses (published October 25, 2021; updated November 8, 2021);
Assaults and Violations of Restraining Orders
Sex Offenses
2018 Sentencing Practices Data Reports:
Sentencing Practices: Annual Summary Statistics for Felony Offenders (published October 31, 2019; updated November 22, 2019)
Criminal Sexual Conduct
Assaults and Violations of Restraining Orders
Controlled Substance Offenses
2017 Sentencing Practices Data Reports:
Sentencing Practices: Annual Summary Statistics for Felony Offenders (published November 8, 2018; updated November 16, 2018)
Controlled Substance Offenses (published December 12, 2018; updated December 18, 2018; updated March 5, 2019)
Assaults and Violations of Restraining Orders
Criminal Sexual Conduct
2016 Sentencing Practices Data Reports:
Sentencing Practices: Annual Summary Statistics for Felony Offenders
Assaults and Violations of Harassment Restraining Orders
Criminal Sexual Conduct
Controlled Substance Offenses
2015 Sentencing Practices Data Reports:
Sentencing Practices: Annual Summary Statistics for Felony Offenders
Assaults and Violations of Harassment Restraining Orders
Criminal Sexual Conduct
Controlled Substance Offenses
2014 Sentencing Practices Data Reports:
Sentencing Practices: Annual Summary Statistics for Felony Offenders (published November, 2015; updated December, 2015)
Assaults and Violations of Harassment Restraining Orders
Criminal Sexual Conduct
Controlled Substance Offenses For a brief summary, read the Controlled Substance Recap Report.
For a brief summary of DWI, CVH/O, or Failure to Register as a Predatory Offense offenses, click on the Recap Report tab.
2013 Sentencing Practices Data Reports:
Sentencing Practices: Annual Summary Statistics for Felony Offenders
2013 Monitoring Data: Sentencing Practices Data Summary Presentation
Assaults and Violations of Harassment Restraining Orders
Criminal Sexual Conduct
Controlled Substance Offenses For a brief summary, read the Controlled Substance Offenses Recap Report.
For a brief summary of DWI, CVH/O, or Failure to Register as a Predatory Offender offenses, click on the Recap Report tab.
2012 Sentencing Practices Data Reports:
Sentencing Practices: Annual Summary Statistics for Felony Offenders
Assaults and Violations of Harassment Restraining Orders
Controlled Substance Offenses
Criminal Sexual Conduct
Failure to Register as a Predatory Offender
Felony Driving While Impaired and Criminal Vehicular Operation/Homicide are available on the Recap Report tab.
Sentencing Practice Data Reports from previous years are available upon request. Please contact us if you wish to obtain a report from an earlier year.
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Legislative
MSGC creates two types of legislative reports – annual legislative reports and special legislative reports.
The annual Report to the Legislature contains information for which the Commission is required to report: modifications to the Guidelines and use of firearms in crimes as reported by Minnesota's County Attorneys. The Commission also takes this opportunity to highlight topics that may be of interest to the legislature. Click on the Special Legislative tab for reports that were issued by the Commission in response to a Legislative request or mandate.
2023 MSGC Report to the Legislature
The Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission submitted this report to the Legislature to fulfill its two statutory reporting requirements: to identify and explain all modifications made during the preceding twelve months and all proposed modifications that were being submitted to the Legislature; and to summarize and analyze reports received from county attorneys on criminal cases involving a firearm. As in past years, the Commission also took the opportunity to highlight other topics that may be of interest to the Legislature, including sentencing trends and updates on Commission and staff activities.
Links to past reports:
1980-2015 Reports to the Legislature – Available upon request.
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Demographic Impact Statements
In 2008, MSGC staff began providing the Minnesota Legislature demographic impact statements - previously referred to as "racial-impact statements" - on certain crime bills when such a statement was anticipated to be helpful to the Legislature. When, in the course of preparing a required fiscal impact statement, MSGC staff identifies a bill that meets its criteria for preparing a demographic impact statement, it prepares such a statement and sends it to the chairs of the crime committees in the Senate and the House. This is done separately from the required fiscal-impact statements.
Demographic Impact Statement Policy
MSGC has prepared 38 demographic impact statements. Those statements pertain to the following bills:
House File No. 2651; Demographic Impact Statement
House File No. 100; Demographic Impact Statement
House File No. 1406; Demographic Impact Statement
House File No. 216; Demographic Impact Statement
House File No. 615; Demographic Impact Statement
Senate File No. 2850; Demographic Impact Statement
House File No. 4174; Demographic Impact Statement
House File No. 1355; Demographic Impact Statement
Senate File No. 2576; Demographic Impact Statement
Senate File No. 2673; Demographic Impact Statement
House File No. 613-1UE; Demographic Impact Statement
House File No. 707-2E; Demographic Impact Statement
House File No. 2013-1CE; Demographic Impact Statement
House File No. 3070; Demographic Impact Statement
House File No. 2013; Demographic Impact Statement
House File No. 812; Demographic Impact Statement
House File No. 689; Demographic Impact Statement
House File No. 480; Demographic Impact Statement
House File No. 89; Demographic Impact Statement
Senate File No. 111; Demographic Impact Statement
Senate File No. 2445; Demographic Impact Statement
House File No. 2964; Demographic Impact Statement
House File No. 2904; Demographic Impact Statement
Senate File No. 2699; Demographic Impact Statement
House File No. 34; Racial Impact Statement
House File No. 2557; Racial Impact Statement
Senate File No. 3481; Racial Impact Statement
Senate File No. 878, Amendment SCS0878A550; Racial Impact Statement
House File No. 285; Racial Impact Statement
Senate File No. 1665; Racial Impact Statement
87th Minnesota Legislature (2011)
House File No. 306; Racial Impact Statement
86th Minnesota Legislature (2009)
Senate File No. 2018; Racial Impact Statement
House File No. 1596; Racial Impact Statement
House File No. 1199; Racial Impact Statement
Senate File No. 2790; Racial Impact Statement
House File No. 3175; Racial Impact Statement
House File No. 3101; Racial Impact Statement
House File No. 2949; Racial Impact Statement
In 2013, MSGC began using U.S. Census data, rather than annual QuickFacts population estimates, to correct an error that affected the calculation of the Hispanic population in previous years' statements.
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Unranked Offenses
Some offenses are designated as unranked offenses. When the court sentences an unranked offense, the court must assign an appropriate severity level for the offense and specify on the record why that particular level was assigned.
2018 Unranked Offense Reports:
Summary of Unranked Offenses (now includes Aiding an Offender: Accomplice After the Fact)
2017 Unranked Offense Reports:
Summary of Unranked Offenses (now includes Aiding an Offender: Accomplice After the Fact) (Published January 31, 2019; updated February 12, 2019)
2016 Unranked Offense Reports:
2015 Unranked Offense Reports:
2014 Unranked Offense Reports:
Sentencing Practice Data Reports from previous years are available upon request. Please contact us if you wish to obtain a report from an earlier year.
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Special Topics
Below are reports initiated by the Commission on special topics of interest.