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2011 South Dakota Code
Title 19 EVIDENCE
Chapter 14. Witnesses
§19-14-29 (Rule 615) Exclusion of witnesses from courtroom.
SD Codified L § 19-14-29 (through 2011) What's This?
19-14-29. (Rule 615) Exclusion of witnesses from courtroom. At the request of a party, witnesses testifying at the trial, hearing, or deposition shall be excluded so that they cannot hear the testimony of other witnesses, and the court may make such an order of its own motion. This section does not authorize exclusion of:
(1) A party who is a natural person;
(2) An officer or employee of a party which is not a natural person designated as its representative by its attorney;
(3) A person whose presence is shown by a party to be essential to the presentation of his cause; or
(4) A victim of a crime and his parent or guardian following the victim's testimony.
Source: Supreme Court Rule 78-2, Rule 615; SL 1986, ch 193, § 4.
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