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Home » US Law » 2022 South Dakota Codified Laws » Title 23A - Criminal Procedure » Chapter 13 - (Rule 16) Discovery » Section 23A-13-10 – Kinds of prior statements subject to discovery by defendant.

23A-13-10. Kinds of prior statements subject to discovery by defendant.

The term “statement” as used in §§23A-13-7 to 23A-13-9, inclusive, in relation to any witness called by the prosecuting attorney, means:

(1)A written statement made by such witness and signed or otherwise adopted or approved by him;

(2)A stenographic, mechanical, electrical, or other recording, or a transcription thereof, which is a substantially verbatim recital of an oral statement made by such witness and recorded contemporaneously with the making of such oral statement;

(3)A statement, however taken or recorded, or a transcription thereof, if any, made by such witness to a grand jury;

(4)A summary of an oral declaration made by someone other than the witness that has been reduced to writing, except for a summary written by a prosecuting attorney.

Source: SL 1978, ch 178, §148-B; SL 1979, ch 159, §10B; SL 2018, ch 290 (Supreme Court Rule 17-11), eff. Sept. 1, 2017.