THE CRIME: On July 30, 2014, Officer Scott Patrick pulled over a motorist on Dodd Road in Mendota Heights. As he stood by the door of his squad, Officer Patrick was shot several times in the head by fugitive and career criminal Brian Fitch and died.
Fitch drove a few miles north from Dakota County and hid for most of the day in St. Paul. As the sun set, Fitch tried to flee east, the skinhead was wounded and captured in a hail of bullets in Ramsey County.
The prosecution for the Dakota County murder and the escape-related gunfire in Ramsey County was transferred to a St. Cloud courtroom about 90 miles west in Stearns County. Fitch was convicted in 2015 and sentenced to life without the possibility of release.
Chief Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea ruled to sustain Fitch's conviction and sentence in 2015, when the Supreme Court rejected the direct appeal by Fitch. See here.
First, the Supreme Court upheld the transfer of the trial from Dakota and Ramsey Counties to Stearns County.
Second, the Supreme Court upheld the merger of the prosecutions for the Dakota County murder with the Ramsey County attempted murder charges arising from Fitch's shoot-out in St, Paul.
Fitch drove a few miles north from Dakota County and hid for most of the day in St. Paul. As the sun set, Fitch tried to flee east, the skinhead was wounded and captured in a hail of bullets in Ramsey County.
The prosecution for the Dakota County murder and the escape-related gunfire in Ramsey County was transferred to a St. Cloud courtroom about 90 miles west in Stearns County. Fitch was convicted in 2015 and sentenced to life without the possibility of release.
Chief Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea ruled to sustain Fitch's conviction and sentence in 2015, when the Supreme Court rejected the direct appeal by Fitch. See here.
First, the Supreme Court upheld the transfer of the trial from Dakota and Ramsey Counties to Stearns County.
Second, the Supreme Court upheld the merger of the prosecutions for the Dakota County murder with the Ramsey County attempted murder charges arising from Fitch's shoot-out in St, Paul.
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