SIOUX FALLS (SOUTH DAKOTA SEARCHLIGHT) – A prosecutor apologized this week for the state’s failure to preserve evidence in a case involving an overdose death in a state prison.
The state of South Dakota wants to convict the inmate charged with providing the drugs, Manarion Fuse, of a crime that could keep him behind bars for the rest of his life.
Fuse is accused of giving drugs to Anthony Richards, who died of a drug overdose in February at the South Dakota State Penitentiary’s Jameson Annex. Fuse, who appeared in court via video link on Tuesday, maintains his innocence…