South Dakota Supreme Court· 6/8/1994

Sommervold v. Grevlos

Citations

518 N.W.2d 733
1994 S.D. LEXIS 82
1994 WL 247534

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stating that because a video reconstruction has a substantial impact on the jury which will tend to view it as true, to be admissible, such reconstructions must be “nearly identical” to the actual event
stating that because a video reconstruction has a substantial impact on the jury which will tend to view it as true, to be admissible, such reconstructions must be \nearly identical\ to the actual event
stating that because a video reconstruction has a substantial impact on the jury which will tend to view it as true, to be admissible, such reconstructions must be “nearly identical” to the actual event
applying a South Dakota statute requiring the party offering computer-generated evidence to describe the program used and show that it produced an accurate result to a computer animation illustrating an accident reconstructionist’s testimony
guilty plea to traffic violation “does not conclusively establish the violation” for purposes of civil case

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Judges: Henderson, McKeever, Sabers, Miller, Gors, Wuest, Amundson

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