South Dakota statute
SDCL § 22-48-1 — Definitions
Current through text effective June 30, 2026 (through the 2025 Regular Session)
Part of Chapter 48: Victim Immunity, South Dakota Codified Laws.
Full text of SDCL § 22-48-1
Statutory text current through the text effective June 30, 2026 (through the 2025 Regular Session). This publication reproduces the official statutory text; it is not the official statutes of the State of South Dakota.
Terms used in this chapter mean:
(1) "Convicted," includes a finding of guilt, whether or not the adjudication of guilt is stayed or executed, an unwithdrawn judicial admission of guilt or guilty plea, a no contest plea, a judgment of conviction, an adjudication as a delinquent child, or an admission to a juvenile delinquency petition;
(2) "Course of criminal conduct," includes the acts or omissions of the perpetrator in carrying out the crime of which convicted or of a victim in resisting criminal conduct;
(3) "Crime," includes an offense named in §§ 22-11-3, 22-11-4, 22-11-6, 22-11-9.1, 22-16-4, 22-16-7, 22-16-15, 22-16-20, 22-18-1, 22-18-1.1, 22-19-1, 22-19A-1, 22-19A-2, 22-22-1, 22-22-7, 22-30-1, 22-30A-4, 22-32-1, 22-32-3, 22-32-8, chapter 22-33, or an attempt to commit any of these offenses. The term includes a crime in other states which would have been within this definition if the crime had been committed in this state;
(4) "Perpetrator," any person who has been convicted of a crime as defined in subdivision (3);
(5) "Victim," a person who was the object of a perpetrator's criminal conduct and includes a person at the scene of an emergency who gives reasonable assistance to another person who is exposed to or has suffered grave physical harm.
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