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STATE v. MARTIN

No. 22631.

683 N.W.2d 399 (2004)

2004 SD 82

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Kenneth L. MARTIN, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided June 23, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Long, Attorney General, Jeffery J. Tronvold, Assistant Attorney General, Pierre, South Dakota, Attorneys for plaintiff and appellee.

Michael Stonefield, Office of the Public Defender for Pennington County, Rapid City, South Dakota, Attorney for defendant and appellant.

SABERS, Justice.

[¶ 1.] On August 4, 2001, Kenneth Martin decided he was going to kill someone that night. He smoked some marijuana and built a silencer for his gun. At approximately 10:30 p.m., Martin walked across the street to the home of Robert Ludeman, a Rapid City police officer, and his fiancee LeAnn Barta. When Ludeman came to the door, Martin shot him twice in the chest and once in the abdomen. Ludeman also suffered blunt force trauma to his head and...

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