South Dakota legal term
Victim in South Dakota Criminal Law
Current through 2026 South Dakota legislative session
In South Dakota criminal law, “Victim” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the South Dakota criminal code.
What does “Victim” mean in South Dakota criminal law?
(53) "Victim," any natural person against whom the defendant in a criminal prosecution has committed or attempted to commit a crime; (54) "Voluntary intoxication," intoxication caused by substances that an actor knowingly introduces into his or her body, the tendency of which is to cause intoxication; and (55) "Written instrument," any paper, document, or other instrument containing written or printed matter or the equivalent thereof, used for purposes of reciting, embodying, conveying, or recording information, and any money, credit card, token, stamp, seal, badge, trade mark, service mark or (SDCL § 22-1-2)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Prohibited recording or manipulated image
- Sexual contact with child under sixteen
- Abuse of or cruelty to minor as felony
- Bond
- Conditional bond
- Defendant prohibited from contacting victim prior to court appearance
- Defendant prohibited from contacting victim prior to court appearance
- Kidnapping
- Kidnapping in the second degree
- Mandatory reporting of abuse or neglect by staff and by person in charge of residential facility or entity providing services to elderly or disabled adult
- Rape
- Safety zone of child victim of sex crime
Related terms in the same statutes
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