# State of Minnesota v. Brandon Wayne Riggs

> Supreme Court of Minnesota · July 1, 2015 · 865 N.W.2d 679

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9808918

## Case

- **Full name:** STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Brandon Wayne RIGGS, Appellant
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Minnesota
- **Decided:** July 1, 2015
- **Citations:** 865 N.W.2d 679; 2015 Minn. LEXIS 374; 2015 WL 4253857
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Anderson
- **Judges:** Wright, Gildea, Anderson
- **Cited by:** 66 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- recognizing that the legislature expressly included certain factors in the reparations context and omitted them in the restitution context, and relying in part on that difference to conclude that section 611A.045, subdivision 1, provides an exclusive list of factors for the di…
- stating that in determining whether a statute is ambiguous, we consider whether a particular interpretation will “give effect-to all of [the 'statute’s] provisions”
- discussing the process for obtaining reparations and explaining that the reparation amount for which the victim is eligible decreases if the victim recoups economic losses from a collateral source, such as restitution paid by the offender
- stating the whole-statute canon directs the court to “construe a statute as a whole and interpret its language to give effect to all of its provisions.”

## Opinion text

ANDERSON, Justice
(dissenting).
I join in the dissent of the Chief Justice.

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