State v. O'BRIEN

This case focuses on the night the lights went out in Mitchell, South Dakota, namely December 10, 1978. A radiator at the Northwestern Public Service substation, located near the Hormel plant, was shot thus rendering a transformer inoperable and re-*115suiting in a power outage. Four young men, including defendant, were involved in the shooting incident. Through a conspiracy of silence and lies, both in and out of the courtroom, the participants have all sought to avoid prosecution, to include perjury charges. They have been quite successful.

There is sufficient evidence, under the traditional…