Legal Opinion
Closs v. South Dakota Board of Pardons & Paroles
South Dakota Supreme Court
Decided January 8, 2003No. NonePublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ZINTER, Justice.
[¶ 1.] Randy Closs was released from a criminal sentence he was serving in the state penitentiary. He was released pursuant to a writ of habeas corpus issued by a federal district court. Upon his release, the Minnehaha County Board of Mental Illness determined that Closs was mentally ill, and that Board committed Closs to the Human Services Center (HSC). Fourteen months later, the federal district court’s writ was reversed by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. After the reversal, Closs was discharged from the HSC, and he returned to the state penitentiary to complete his…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Kansas v. HendricksSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
- United States v. WardSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- State v. ClossSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1985
- Randy Lee Closs v. Douglas Weber, Warden of the South Dakota State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2001
- Burke v. Butte CountySouth Dakota Supreme Court · 2002
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