S.D. Codified Laws § 23A-13-1

Current through the 2024 Legislative Session

Section 23A-13-1 - (Rule 16(a)(1)(A)) Prosecution evidence discoverable by defendant-Statements of employees of corporate defendants

Upon written request of a defendant the prosecuting attorney shall permit the defendant to inspect and copy or photograph:

(1) Any relevant written or recorded statements made by the defendant or copies thereof, within the possession, custody, or control of the state, the existence of which is known, or by the exercise of due diligence may become known, to the prosecuting attorney;

(2) The substance of any oral statement, which the prosecuting attorney intends to offer in evidence at the trial, made by the defendant whether before or after arrest in response to interrogation by any person then known to the defendant to be an employee of a law enforcement agency; and

(3) Notwithstanding § 23A-5-16, recorded testimony of the defendant before a grand jury which relates to the offense charged.

Where the defendant is a corporation, partnership, association, or labor union, the court may grant the defendant, upon its motion, discovery of relevant recorded testimony of any witness before a grand jury who was, at the time of his testimony, so situated as an officer or employee as to have been able legally to bind the defendant in respect to conduct constituting the offense, or who was at the time of the offense, personally involved in the alleged conduct constituting the offense and so situated as an officer or employee as to have been able legally to bind the defendant in respect to that alleged conduct in which he was involved.

SDCL 23A-13-1

SL 1978, ch 178, § 140.