2013 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 23A - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 27A - Capital Punishment
§ 23A-27A-26.2 Mental retardation defined.


SD Codified L § 23A-27A-26.2 (2013) What's This?

23A-27A-26.2. Mental retardation defined. As used in §§ 23A-27A-26.1 to 23A-27A-26.7, inclusive, mental retardation means significant subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with substantial related deficits in applicable adaptive skill areas. An intelligence quotient exceeding seventy on a reliable standardized measure of intelligence is presumptive evidence that the defendant does not have significant subaverage general intellectual functioning.

Source: SL 2000, ch 112, § 2.

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