This story has been updated with reaction from the state attorney general. PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — A South Dakota prison inmate convicted of second-degree murder by a Minnehaha County jury in 1998 for strangling his cellmate to death has again challenged his lifetime sentence, and the South Dakota Supreme Court has again turned him down. […]
The South Dakota Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on eight cases Wednesday and Thursday at the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law in Vermillion.