Incident Details
- Date of Incident
- May 8, 2017
- Location
- Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Legal Orders
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subpoena
for
other testimony
- May 8, 2017: Pending
- May 15, 2017: Dropped
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subpoena
for
other testimony
- Legal Order Target
- Journalist
- Legal Order Venue
- State
Subpoena/Legal Order
A cannabis plant. The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe attempted to set up a marijuana resort in Flandreau, South Dakota but later suspended the project in the wake of legal pressure.
Dana Ferguson, a reporter with Argus Leader Media, a South Dakota news outlet that forms part of the USAToday network, received a subpoena on May 8, 2017. The subpoena from the South Dakota Attorney General’s Office ordered the reporter to testify in a criminal trial of an individual who allegedly helped the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe in an aborted attempt to open a recreational marijuana resort. On May 15, prosecutors withdrew the subpoena, according to USA Today.
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