Scirica v. State

WINANS, Retired Justice. *

This is an appeal from denial of a petition for post-conviction relief challenging the qualifications of one member of the South Dakota Board of Pardons and Paroles. The Circuit Court, Second Judicial Circuit, denied the petition, and we affirm that decision.

On March 20, 1975, Ronald Scirica was sentenced to the South Dakota Penitentiary for second degree rape and first degree robbery. He received a six-year sentence on the robbery conviction and an indeterminate sentence of ten to twenty years on the rape conviction. On April 23, 1976, the Board of Pardons and…