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Governor, South Dakota Trial Lawyers Assn.Recipient, Trial Lawyer of the Year, South Dakota Trial Lawyers Assn. (2006)Editor in Chief, South Dakota Law ReviewGuest Lecturer, University of South Dakota Law SchoolCo-Author, South Dakota Law Review, "Jurassic Farce: A Critical Analysis of the Governmnet's Seizure of a Sixty-Five Million Year Old Tyrannosaurus Rex Fossil" (39 SD L. Rev.)
Education
Undergraduate: South Dakota State University, , 1980
Benjamin has been practicing criminal defense for more than 20 years and has extensive courtroom experience in both the federal and state courts. He has represented defendants in all types of criminal cases, including high-level drug trafficking, sexual assault, and murder. In the course of his career, Benjamin has defended several high-profile prosecutions in Las Vegas, including such defendants as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, Aryan Warriors, and Rolling 60's crips.  He has obtained dismissals of federal money laundering charges, drug trafficking charges, and he has won an acquittal in a first-degree murder trial.Â