{"data":{"id":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-611.026","jurisdiction":"us-mn","citation":"Minn. Stat. § 611.026","heading":"CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY OF PERSONS WITH A MENTAL ILLNESS OR COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT.","body":"No person having a mental illness or cognitive impairment so as to be incapable of understanding the proceedings or making a defense shall be tried, sentenced, or punished for any crime; but the person shall not be excused from criminal liability except upon proof that at the time of committing the alleged criminal act the person was laboring under such a defect of reason, from one of these causes, as not to know the nature of the act, or that it was wrong.","path":["CRIMES; EXPUNGEMENT; VICTIMS","CHAPTER 611. RIGHTS OF ACCUSED","GENERALLY"],"source_url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/611.026","current_through":"2025 Minnesota Statutes","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T22:10:51Z","sha256":"9345c852c46d2e07b2ae520614d2cd1b288708d8d2342e3ae11fef66326d7477","source_id":"us-mn","stale":false,"prev":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-611.025","next":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-611.027"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}