(KCCR – Pierre, SD) A former state employee convicted of stealing over the course of 13 years just under one-point-eight million dollars from the Department of Social Services for foster children will spend a year in prison for each year she stole funds….
South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley pleaded for a 25 year sentence for the nearly 69 year-old Carroll. In the presentence investigation a letter was submitted by Department of Human Services Secretary Matt Althoff that Jackley says outlined the impact of Carroll’s crime…
Carroll expressed concern over some witnesses and jurors in the presentence investigation. Jackley used that to express Carroll’s lack of accepting responsibility…
Carroll’s attorney Tim Whalen asked Judge Christina Klinger about referring Carroll’s appeal to the Office of Indigent Legal Services, the first such appeal for the office outside of Minnehaha or Pennington Counties.
