ST. PAUL, MN (WTAQ) – A Minnesota appeals court could decide within 90 days whether Jeffrey Trevino deserves a new trial.
He’s the St. Paul man convicted of killing his Wisconsin-born wife, Kira Steger from the Wausau area.
Thursday, Trevino’s lawyer argued his jury did not get proper instructions on its deliberations. He’s also seeking a shorter sentence, after Judge Leonardo Castro ordered Trevino to spend 27-and-a-half years in prison — twice the maximum under Minnesota’s sentencing guidelines.
Castro said the longer sentence was justified because Trevino was cruel to dump Steger’s body in the Mississippi River to throw off large groups of people who were searching for her.
Authorities said Steger disappeared in February of 2013, soon after she went on a date with her husband in which she spent much of the night texting her boyfriend.
Her battered body was found almost 3 months later in the river at St. Paul.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
