Any person who, directly or indirectly, utters or addresses any threat or intimidation to any judicial or ministerial officer, juror, member of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, or other person authorized by law to hear or determine any controversy, or any court services officer, with intent to induce the person either to do any act not authorized by law, or to omit or delay the performance of any duty imposed upon the person by law, or for having performed any duty imposed upon the person by law, is guilty of a Class 5 felony.
S.D. Codified Laws § 22-11-15
Threatening or intimidating judicial or ministerial officers or others
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case State v. Armstrong (2020)
Most recently applied in State v. Armstrong (January 2020)
Source: SDC 1939, § 13.1206; SDCL § 16-15-9; SL 1976, ch 158, § 11-10; SL 1977, ch 189, § 25; SL 2003, ch 123, § 1; SL 2011, ch 114, § 2.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.