{"data":{"id":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-609.27","jurisdiction":"us-mn","citation":"Minn. Stat. § 609.27","heading":"COERCION.","body":"Subdivision 1. Acts constituting.\nWhoever orally or in writing makes any of the following threats and thereby causes another against the other's will to do any act or forbear doing a lawful act is guilty of coercion and may be sentenced as provided in subdivision 2:\n(1) a threat to unlawfully inflict bodily harm upon, or hold in confinement, the person threatened or another, when robbery or attempt to rob is not committed thereby; or\n(2) a threat to unlawfully inflict damage to the property of the person threatened or another; or\n(3) a threat to unlawfully injure a trade, business, profession, or calling; or\n(4) a threat to expose a secret or deformity, publish a defamatory statement, or otherwise to expose any person to disgrace or ridicule; or\n(5) a threat to make or cause to be made a criminal charge, whether true or false; provided, that a warning of the consequences of a future violation of law given in good faith by a peace officer or prosecuting attorney to any person shall not be deemed a threat for the purposes of this section; or\n(6) a threat to commit a violation under section 617.261.\n[See Note.]\nSubd. 2. Sentence.\nWhoever violates subdivision 1 may be sentenced as follows:\n(1) to imprisonment for not more than 90 days or to payment of a fine of not more than $1,000, or both if neither the pecuniary gain received by the violator nor the loss suffered by the person threatened or another as a result of the threat exceeds $300, or the benefits received or harm sustained are not susceptible of pecuniary measurement; or\n(2) to imprisonment for not more than five years or to payment of a fine of not more than $10,000, or both, if such pecuniary gain or loss is more than $300 but less than $2,500; or\n(3) to imprisonment for not more than ten years or to payment of a fine of not more than $20,000, or both, if such pecuniary gain or loss is $2,500, or more.","path":["CRIMES; EXPUNGEMENT; VICTIMS","CHAPTER 609. CRIMINAL CODE","CRIMES OF COMPULSION"],"source_url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.27","current_through":"2025 Minnesota Statutes","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T22:10:51Z","sha256":"86503492a68cb2c7f4b1a14b033749c1b65af54f0228501dad6e0f58dfd3e894","source_id":"us-mn","stale":false,"prev":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-609.2691","next":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-609.275"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}