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2019 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 22 - Crimes
Chapter 23 - Prostitution
§ 22-23-1.2 Affirmative defense of compulsion.
Universal Citation: SD Codified L § 22-23-1.2 (2019)
22-23-1.2. Affirmative defense of compulsion. It is an affirmative defense to a charge of prostitution under § 22-23-1 if the defendant proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant is a victim of human trafficking under chapter 22-49 or that the defendant committed the act only under compulsion by another person who, by implicit or explicit threat, created a reasonable apprehension in the mind of the defendant that if the defendant did not commit the act, the person would inflict bodily harm upon the defendant.
Source: SL 2012, ch 127, § 1.
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