State v. Anderson

ORDER DISMISSING APPEAL

The Court having received proof that defendant committed suicide on March 30, 2003, while incarcerated in the South Dakota State Penitentiary and while awaiting the outcome of this appeal, and

Whereas the issuance of the decision in this appeal was delayed at the request of defendant so that the Court could consider his additional arguments based on new authority, and

Whereas the decision in this matter would have been handed down before defendant’s death had the matter not been delayed at his request, and

Whereas defendant elected to take his own life before the issuance…