2-21-17 second trial date scheduled in fdl county cold case murder

A Fond du Lac judge has set a new trial date a month after rejecting a motion to dismiss first murder charges against an over the road trucker from Kenosha.   At a hearing Monday afternoon Judge Robert Wirtz  set a new trial starting February 12th of next year for  Dennis Brantner who is charged in the 1990 death of  Berit Beck in Fond du lac County.  A status conference will be held this summer with motion hearings scheduled for this fall.  Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney says Brantner will face the same first degree murder charges he went to trial on last summer.  A mistrial was declared last summer after jurors told the judge they could not reach a unanimous verdict.  Wirtz was assigned to the case after Judge Gary Sharpe stepped down after he made comments about the case shortly after declaring a mistrial.
 
 

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