Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

A bank robber serving federal time for threatening Yankton bank employees with a fake bomb is appealing his sentence.David Giese asked a South Dakota…

In May 2017, Jamie Shoulders of Kyle shot Chris Janis, who was sitting in a minivan conducting a drug deal.Shoulders later pleaded guilty to second-degree…

In 2001, Oakley Engesser was convicted of vehicular homicide and two counts of vehicular battery resulting from a car crash near Sturgis.Engesser spent 12…

In 2016, public and private officials gathered on a 10-acre tract of land near Brookings to break ground for an indoor aquaponics farm.Investors were told…

Attorney General Marty Jackley says convicted murderer Charles Rhines won't get a second chance with the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.Rhines' case was…

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Paul has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that South Dakota officials violated the Indian Child Welfare Act. Now…

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Paul has overturned a Rapid City federal court's finding that South Dakota agencies systematically violated the…

Convicted murderer Charles Rhines has lost another attempt to have his death penalty overturned, this time at the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Now his…

In 2014 the warden at the South Dakota State Penitentiary enacted a more stringent policy restricting access to obscene materials.Inmate Charles Sisney…

Annie Mae Aquash was found dead on the Pine Ridge Reservation in February 1976, killed by a bullet to the back of her head, but no one was charged with…