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Mandate Details

Description: Report of a statewide database record of jailhouse witnesses, including: the name of the jailhouse witness and the district court file number of the case in which that witness testified or planned to testify; the substance and use of any testimony of a jailhouse witness against the interest of a suspect or defendant, regardless of whether such testimony is presented at trial; and the jailhouse witness's agreement to cooperate with the prosecution and any benefit that the prosecutor has offered or may offer in the future to the jailhouse witness in connection with the testimony; the total number of jailhouse witnesses tracked in the statewide record; and for each county, the number of new reports added over the previous fiscal year.
Law: 2021 Minn. Laws 1st Spl. Sess. Chap. 11 Art. 3 Sec. 35
Statute: 634.045 Subd. 3
Agency(ies)/Supplier(s): Minn. Dept. of Corrections
Due Date: 09/15/2024
Frequency: Annual
Subjects: Crime & Corrections - Inmates
Judicial Administration/Courts
Note: Data collected and maintained are classified as confidential data on individuals (data made not public by statute or federal law applicable to the data and are inaccessible to the individual subject of those data). Only the Minn. Dept. of Corrections may access the statewide record but shall provide all information held on specific jailhouse witnesses to a county attorney upon request. Information in the report must be limited to summary data (statistical records and reports derived from data on individuals but in which individuals are not identified and from which neither their identities nor any other characteristic that could uniquely identify an individual is ascertainable).

Item(s) Received

TitlePublisher(s)Publication DateCoverageDate ReceivedReport LinkCall #
Jailhouse Witness Data Annual Report Minn. Dept. of Corrections [2023]FY 202310/18/2023 23-1628.pdf
 
Jailhouse Witness Data Annual Report 2022FY 202211/29/2022 22-1612.pdf
KF9665.A23 J35 2022