South Dakota statute
SDCL § 22-5-1 — Conduct forced or under threat of force
Current through text effective June 30, 2026 (through the 2025 Regular Session)
Part of Chapter 5: Defenses, South Dakota Codified Laws.
Full text of SDCL § 22-5-1
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.
No person may be convicted of a crime based upon conduct in which that person engaged because of the use or threatened use of unlawful force upon himself, herself, or another person, which force or threatened use of force a reasonable person in that situation would have been lawfully unable to resist.
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