Legal Opinion

Satter v. Solem

South Dakota Supreme Court

Decided June 3, 1988No. 15731PublishedCited by 48 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MORGAN, Justice.

Petitioner and appellant Steven Satter (Satter or petitioner), appeals from a judgment denying habeas corpus relief. We reverse and remand.

Satter was convicted by jury trial of two counts of murder on May 10,1974, and was sentenced to serve two concurrent life sentences. Satter appealed that conviction, which was affirmed at 90 S.D. 485, 242 N.W.2d 149 (S.D.1976). Petitioner raises four issues on appeal.(1) That admissions made to the sheriff without benefit of Miranda warnings were involuntary.(2) That jury instruction No. 15 imper-missibly shifted the burden of proving…

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2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  3. Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  4. Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  5. Edwards v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1981

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3Cited by48 opinions

  1. Steven Satter v. Walter Leapley, Warden, South Dakota State Penitentiary Roger Tellinghuisen, Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1992
  2. McCafferty v. SolemSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1989
  3. State v. BurtzlaffSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1992
  4. Loop v. ClassSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1996
  5. Cowell v. LeapleySouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1990

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