Supreme Court of Minnesota· 4/12/1996

State v. Murphy

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545 N.W.2d 909
1996 Minn. LEXIS 226
1996 WL 170255

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holding that a challenge to probationary-release conditions was premature because the defendant was not eligible for release for several years
explaining that when the legislature prohibited terroristic threats, it intended to deter and punish the future act threatened, as well as the underlying act constituting the threat
reasoning that treating an oral terroristic threat differently from a threat accomplished by someone clever enough to threaten by way of a physical act would produce an absurd result
affirming an upward departure in a terroristic threats case for several reasons, including defendant’s “multiple victims”
“The terroristic threats statute mandates that the threats must be to commit a future crime of violence which would terror ize a victim.”
“It is well settled that courts may presume that the legislature does not intend an absurd result.”

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Judges: Per Curiam

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