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2011 South Dakota Code
Title 16 COURTS AND JUDICIARY
Chapter 12C. Clerk Magistrates
§16-12C-9 Jurisdiction--Committal--Conditions.
SD Codified L § 16-12C-9 (through 2011) What's This?
16-12C-9. Jurisdiction--Committal--Conditions. A magistrate court with a clerk magistrate presiding has concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit courts to act as a committing magistrate if voluntary and knowledgeable waiver of preliminary hearing has been given before the court. The magistrate court may conduct preliminary hearings as a committing magistrate unless demand is made by the defendant prior to such hearing to have the hearing conducted before a magistrate judge or a circuit judge to be assigned by the presiding judge.
Source: SL 2003, ch 117, § 36.
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