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SDCL § 23A-27A-26.2 — Intellectual disability defined

Current through text effective June 30, 2026 (through the 2025 Regular Session)

Part of Chapter 27A: Capital Punishment, South Dakota Codified Laws.

Full text of SDCL § 23A-27A-26.2

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.

SDCL § 23A-27A-26.2Primary source, current through the text effective June 30, 2026 (through the 2025 Regular Session)
As used in §§ 23A-27A-26.1 to 23A-27A-26.7, inclusive, intellectual disability means significant subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with substantial related deficits in applicable adaptive skill areas. An intelligence quotient exceeding seventy on a reliable standardized measure of intelligence is presumptive evidence that the defendant does not have significant subaverage general intellectual functioning.

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