Manslaughter

PIERRE, S.D. — The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled that Jameson Mitchell was improperly sentenced to 124 years for fatally shooting a man who ran at him and shouted for Mitchell to shoot him. Mitchell pleaded guilty to manslaughter under the theory that he was resisting an attempt by the victim to commit a crime, and the Supreme Court ruled the lower court must consider that he was reacting to a threat posed by the victim’s “own assaultive conduct.”