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What is an “Aggravated” Charge?

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Well an aggravated charge means that you can – you run the risk of a significantly enhanced penalty. So if you’re looking at a robbery charge and there’s an aggravated robbery charge, usually that means there’s a weapon or some injury involved. And that gives the judge the power sometimes to depart upward, so you could be looking at double the sentence.

Minneapolis criminal defense attorney Bruce Rivers explains what aggravated means in the context of Minnesota criminal law.

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