S.D. jury records to be closed, high court says

From Sunshine Review

September 26, 2008

[edit] S.D. jury records to be closed, high court says

"Worried about protecting jurors' personal information, the South Dakota Supreme Court last week decided all records created during jury selection should not be available to the public unless the trial judge says otherwise.

Presiding circuit judges across the state proposed the change as they grew increasingly concerned about identity theft and the potential that someone would embarrass jurors by distributing their answers to sensitive questions."

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