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Feb 15, 2006 1:05 pm US/Central
Janklow's Law License Restored Today
Sioux Falls, S.D. (AP) ―
Bill Janklow can practice law again.
His license reinstatement is effective today -- after a South Dakota Supreme Court ruling last month.
The four-term governor who resigned from Congress after being convicted for a deadly traffic accident was automatically suspended as a lawyer.
A jury found him guilty of second-degree manslaughter for killing Randy Scott of Hardwick, Minn. Scott was riding a motorcycle when Janklow ran a stop sign in Moody County in 2003.
Janklow spent 100 days in jail and was put on probation for three years.
The judge who sentenced Janklow had recommended that his law license not be returned until his probation is finished in January 2007.
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