Legal Opinion
State v. Medicine Eagle
South Dakota Supreme Court
Decided August 7, 2013No. 26346PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERTSON, Chief Justice.
[¶ 1.] M.E.H. alleges she was kidnapped and raped by Gabriel Darryn Medicine Eagle, Junior, on September 23, 2000. In 2001, Medicine Eagle was indicted, but the charges were later dismissed when DNA testing failed to implicate Medicine Eagle. In 2008, the case was reopened and the evidence obtained in 2000 was retested using a new method of DNA testing. This time, the testing revealed the presence of Medicine Eagle’s DNA. On December 3, 2009, the grand jury indicted Medicine Eagle on various charges stemming from the alleged rape. Further, a Part II Information was…
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