STATE v. PLASTOW

No. 27374.

873 N.W.2d 222 (2015)

2015 S.D. 100

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Alvin PLASTOW, Defendant and Appellee.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided December 23, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marty J. Jackley , Attorney General, Jared C. Tidemann , Paul S. Swedlund , Assistant Attorneys General Pierre, South Dakota and Aaron F. McGowan , Minnehaha County State's Attorney, Sara E. Show , Minnehaha County Deputy State's Attorney, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Attorneys for plaintiff and appellant.

Lyndsay E. DeMatteo , Minnehaha County Public Advocate's Office, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Attorneys for defendant and appellee.


[¶ 1.] The State, by way of intermediate appeal, challenges the circuit court's suppression of Alvin Plastow's admission that he raped a three-year old girl. The circuit court suppressed in accordance with our cases holding that a conviction cannot stand on an admission alone: the admission must be corroborated with independent...

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