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RHINES v. SD DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

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935 N.W.2d 541 (2019)

2019 S.D. 59

Charles Russell RHINES, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. SOUTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS and Mike Leidholt, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, Defendant and Appellee.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

OPINION FILED October 25, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DANIEL R. FRITZ , TIMOTHY R. RAHN , Ballard Spahr LLP, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Attorneys for plaintiff and appellant.

JASON R. RAVNSBORG , Attorney General, PAUL S. SWEDLUND , Assistant Attorney General, Pierre, South Dakota, Attorneys for defendant and appellee.

[¶1.] Charles Rhines is a prisoner awaiting execution for a death sentence imposed following his first-degree murder conviction. He brought a civil action challenging a Department of Corrections administrative policy relating to the method and procedures for carrying out capital sentences. The...

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