Victoria Wicks
Former SDPB Freelance Reporter/ProducerRapid City freelancer Victoria L. Wicks has been producing news for SDPB since August 2007. She Retired from this position in March 2023.
She has been a newspaper reporter, and she spent about 14 years advocating for crime victims in Rapid City and Aberdeen.
Victoria is also a creative writer; several of her short stories have been published, one of them in an anthology titled Fishing for Chickens: Short Stories about Rural Youth.
In addition, Victoria is a visual artist, creating pottery, watercolors, oil and acrylic paintings, and photographs. She holds a Master of Arts degree in English from the University of South Dakota.
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An Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion says a federal prosecutor did not have to prove that a 26-year-old defendant knew the girl he had sex with was 14 years old. -
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that it does not have jurisdiction to declare that a South Dakota highway patrolman is exempt from a lawsuit over a speeding stop.
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Christopher Truax was convicted of using the internet to entice a child to have sex. Truax is now appealing his conviction, saying the prosecutor improperly withheld the fact that Truax had read a book on how to emotionally influence a jury. -
Lowell Lundstrom Junior claims he was cheated out of compensation for his role in recruiting farmers to sign onto a lawsuit against an international seed supplier. After the trial judge turned down his request for a new trial, Lundstrom appealed to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, which heard arguments in Saint Paul.
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The South Dakota Supreme Court has agreed with a prison inmate that his trial judge erred by not allowing one of his witnesses to testify. -
Authorities need to act more quickly and decisively when dealing with juvenile delinquency. That’s one conclusion of a South Dakota legislative interim committee on juvenile justice. -
Citizens for Liberty has accused Rapid City Area Schools of violating the state’s open meetings laws. -
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments concerning the Indian Child Welfare Act on Nov. 9. ICWA is a federal law introduced by South Dakota’s U.S. Senator James Abourezk 45 years ago and passed by Congress in 1978. -
After studying the need for more jail space this summer, an interim legislative committee has come up with a list of proposals to present to the 2023 South Dakota Legislature for action. -
South Dakota’s restrictions on paid petition circulators have been shot down by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
