ST. CLOUD v. CLASS

No. 19288.

550 N.W.2d 70 (1996)

1996 SD 64

Richard Norman ST. CLOUD, Applicant and Appellant, v. Joe CLASS, Warden, South Dakota State Penitentiary, Appellee.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided May 29, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy M. Gebhart, Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz and Smith, Sioux Falls, for Applicant and Appellant.

Mark Barnett, Attorney General, John P. Guhin, Assistant Attorney General, Pierre, for Appellee.


SABERS, Justice.

[¶ 1] St. Cloud appeals the denial of his application for writ of habeas corpus. He claims the jury panel did not represent a fair cross section of the community and that his counsel was ineffective. We affirm.

FACTS

[¶ 2] St. Cloud is a Native American whose blood quantum is 15/32 Yankton Sioux and 7/16 Ponca. He is 29/32 Native American.1 As a child, he was enrolled in the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska...

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