§ 22-48-1 Definitions.

SD Codified L § 22-48-1 (2019) (N/A)

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22-48-1. Definitions. Terms used in this chapter mean:

(1) "Convicted," includes a finding of guilt, whether or not the adjudication of guilt is stayed or executed, an unwithdrawn judicial admission of guilt or guilty plea, a no contest plea, a judgment of conviction, an adjudication as a delinquent child, or an admission to a juvenile delinquency petition;

(2) "Course of criminal conduct," includes the acts or omissions of the perpetrator in carrying out the crime of which convicted or of a victim in resisting criminal conduct;

(3) "Crime," includes an offense named in §§ 22-11-3, 22-11-4, 22-11-6, 22-11-9.1, 22-16-4, 22-16-7, 22-16-15, 22-16-20, 22-18-1, 22-18-1.1, 22-19-1, 22-19A-1, 22-19A-2, 22-22-1, 22-22-7, 22-30-1, 22-30A-4, 22-32-1, 22-32-3, 22-32-8, chapter 22-33, or an attempt to commit any of these offenses. The term includes a crime in other states which would have been within this definition if the crime had been committed in this state;

(4) "Perpetrator," any person who has been convicted of a crime as defined in subdivision (3);

(5) "Victim," a person who was the object of a perpetrator's criminal conduct and includes a person at the scene of an emergency who gives reasonable assistance to another person who is exposed to or has suffered grave physical harm.Source: SL 1998, ch 124, § 1; SL 2003, ch 130, § 1.

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