South Dakota Searchlight‘s series on Governor Kristi Noem’s soft-on-crime commutations and paroles remind us that the Governor may not be following state law and constitution…
Tag: crime victims
The trial of killer Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg takes a constitutional twist, as the wife of the man he killed invokes Marsy’s Law to stop…
Back in August, the South Dakota Supreme Court said that South Dakota law on victim compensation does not allow our courts to order convicted malefactors…
Homer Rough Surface was surprised to learn that the man who raped and killed his mother 39 years ago was granted parole in an April…
In yesterday’s special primary election, South Dakotans recognized that Marsy’s Law, the vanity project peddled by California billionaire Henry T. Nicholas, is deeply flawed. To…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson thought Henry T. Nicholas’s crime victims bill of rights—branded by Nicholas as “Marsy’s Law”—was a bad idea when it came before…
KELO-TV exaggerates just a bit when it says, “Supporters, Opponents Clash over Amendment to Marsy’s Law.” The report features just one opponent—little old me—and “clash”…
The only people claiming that Amendment Y, Marsy’s Fix, gives rights to crime victims are its dissembling supporters. Check out their latest fibs on the…
California billionaire Henry T. Nicholas has a Twitter feed to promote Amendment W, Marsy’s Fix, in South Dakota. The Tweets pushing Amendment Y follow the…
We don’t have to wait for G. Mark Mickelson and his new out-of-state friends to clarify the crime victims amendment. On Valentine’s Day, the South…