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Trial starts for work-release inmate in rape case

April 23, 2013 in The Daily Republic

SIOUX FALLS (AP) A jury trial got under way Tuesday for a work-release inmate in South Dakota who’s accused of raping the girlfriend of a former cellmate. Continue Reading

Court rejects Plankinton man’s appeal in rape case

March 20, 2013 in The Daily Republic

Ernest Albert Fisher Jr. was found guilty of multiple counts of child sex abuse in two separate trials.
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Court hears arguments in Winner rape case

March 20, 2013 in The Daily Republic

Man seeks new trial or lighter sentence from SD justices for 2000 crime.
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Man seeks new trial in Winner kidnapping, rape case

March 19, 2013 in The Daily Republic

Gabriel D. Medicine Eagle Jr., now 35, was convicted in 2011 and sentenced to life in prison after advances in DNA testing prompted the state to charge him with assaulting a 15-year-old girl in 2000 near Winner.
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8 women share personal stories of rape in Fargo native’s documentary

March 2, 2013 in The Dickinson Press

FARGO Ten years ago, Dena Wyum was raped at a party as an 18-year-old freshman at North Dakota State University. Continue Reading

Fulton lawmaker in Oscar-nominated film

February 19, 2013 in The Daily Republic

Stace Nelson interviewed in ‘Invisible War,’ a documentary about rape and sexual assault in the U.S. military.

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Rape trial begins for Griz QB Johnson

February 11, 2013 in The Dickinson Press

MISSOULA, Mont. The rape trial of a former University of Montana quarterback is about a woman who was betrayed by someone she trusted and not about the school’s football program, a prosecutor said Monday in his opening statement. Continue Reading

Former Montana QB’s rape trial begins

February 8, 2013 in The Dickinson Press

MISSOULA, Mont. More than 150 potential jurors packed a hotel ballroom Friday for the rape trial of a former University of Montana quarterback, as attorneys attempted to seat an impartial panel in a town where Griz football is king. Continue Reading

At Spirit Lake, disputed progress

January 18, 2013 in The Dickinson Press

FORT TOTTEN In the nearly four months since the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs took over child protection services on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation, tribal and BIA officials say they’re working well together, the system has been made more professional and accountable and reservation children are safer from abusers and sexual predators. Continue Reading

DVORAK: Rape: Scary stranger is not the worst part

November 22, 2012 in The Daily Republic

Remember when we first started talking about date rape and acquaintance rape? The widespread assumption was that attackers were otherwise nice guys who got a little too drunk and carried things a bit too far.
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