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STATE v. COTTIER

No. 24411.

755 N.W.2d 120 (2008)

2008 SD 79

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. James Albert COTTIER, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided August 6, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence E. Long, Attorney General, Andrew Knecht, Assistant Attorney General, Pierre, South Dakota, Attorneys for plaintiff and appellee.

Matthew L. Olson, Jeff Larson, Office of the Minnehaha, County Public Defender, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Attorneys for defendant and appellant.

MEIERHENRY, Justice.

[¶ 1.] A jury convicted James Cottier (Cottier) of Manslaughter in the First Degree with a Dangerous Weapon, in violation of 22-16-15(3) (2005).1 Cottier appeals and we affirm.

FACTS

[¶ 2.] On June 21, 2005, a worker found the badly cut-up body of Cameron Red Star on the grounds of the South Dakota School for the Deaf in Sioux Falls, South...

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