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Motion made to acquit Brantner of 1990 Berit Beck murder

August 23, 2016 By WRN Contributor

The attorney for a Kenosha man suspected in the July 1990 murder of 18-year-old Berit Beck argues that trying his client a second time for her murder would be double jeopardy.

Craig Powell filed a motion in Fond du Lac County Court last Friday on behalf of his client, 63-year-old Dennis Brantner. Powell has asked Judge Gary Sharpe to acquit Brantner and block a second trial.

District Attorney Eric Toney says his office is requesting a second trial. A jury couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict in Brantner’s murder trial in June and were dismissed. Toney says the judge never ruled it a mistrial, but could make a decision on that during a September 6th motion hearing.

Meanwhile Brantner is serving a 6 year, 7 month sentence for drug possession that stemmed from a search at the County Jail when he was booked for Beck’s murder.

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