Counseling required for domestic abuse defendant placed on probation.

1. Law
2. South Dakota Codified Laws
3. Domestic Relations
4. Protection from Domestic Abuse
5. Counseling required for domestic abuse defendant placed on probation.

25-10-5.1. Counseling required for domestic abuse defendant placed on probation.

If a court places a defendant on probation upon receiving a verdict or plea of guilty for a crime involving domestic abuse, the court shall order that a condition of the defendant's probation is that he attend family violence counseling. Failure to attend family violence counseling is a violation of the defendant's probation.

Source: SL 1992, ch 178.

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