Accumulation of prior capital felony records by Supreme Court--Staff and methods
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case State v. Rhines (1996)
Most recently applied in Moeller v. Weber (March 2009)
Source: SL 1979, ch 160, § 13; SL 1982, ch 185.
The Supreme Court shall accumulate the records of all capital felony cases that the court deems appropriate.
The court may employ an appropriate staff and such methods to compile the data as are deemed by the Chief Justice to be appropriate and relevant to the statutory questions concerning the validity of the sentence.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.