UNDATED (KELO-AM) Well known actor, Kelsey Grammer, of Cheers and Frazier fame, is in an emotional new TV ad for the Marsy's Law ballot measure in South Dakota.
Grammer's father was shot and killed in his home at the age of thirty-eight and Grammer's sister was brutally raped and murdered when she was eighteen.
"When my father's killer was released and allowed to live out his days in freedom, we were never told. I found out through the National Enquirer. It seemed like a cruel joke," says Grammer in the new ad.
Supporters of Amendment S say that South Dakota families have similar horror stories. Amendment S would create state constitutional rights for crime victims in South Dakota. But the South Dakota State Bar argues that the new amendment is duplicative of laws already on the books to protect crime victims.
Marsy’s Law for South Dakota is named after Marsalee “Marsy” Ann Nicholas. Only a week after the college student was murdered in California in 1983, her mother and brother walked into a grocery store and saw the accused murderer. They hadn't been told he was out on bail.
South Dakota is one of several states where supporters are trying to enact Marsy's Law.
