He is the former South Dakota lawmaker convicted of raping two of his former foster daughters.

It is a ruling Ted Klaudt appealed to the South Dakota Supreme Court, claiming the jury made a legal mistake when they convicted him.
Now the state supreme court has completed it's review of the case.

A Hughes County jury convicted Klaudt on four counts of second degree rape in November of 2007.
Prosecutors say Klaudt had engaged in sexual contact with two of his teen-aged foster daughters, under the ruse that he was performing tests to see if the two girls would be viable donors of reproductive eggs.
One of the factors the jury had to look at was whether Klaudt used illegal means to coerce the girls.
His attorneys told the Supreme Court while Klaudt deceived the girls, deception is not illegal.
The Supreme Court disagreed, saying the deception was paired with psychological coercion which resulted in repeated sexual abuse.

Klaudt is currently serving a 54 year prison sentence at the state penitentiary in sioux falls.

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