OCONTO, WI (WTAQ) – A Shawano man will not get a new trial on charges that he killed his ex-girlfriend and her brother.
An Oconto County judge ruled Monday against 31-year-old Daniel Schmidt. He’s spending two life terms in prison with no chance for a supervised release, for shooting 32-year-old Kimberly Rose and her 22-year-old brother Leonard Marsh at the woman’s home near Gillett in 2009.
Schmidt said the judge improperly excluded testimony from a child psychologist to help corroborate an account from a child witness. Circuit Judge Michael Judge said the defense never established that the testimony was relevant.
Prosecutors said Schmidt killed Rose so she wouldn’t expose that he cheated on his wife — and to keep her from speaking up about his marijuana-growing operation.
Investigators also said Rose loaned Schmidt $1,000 dollars for a motorcycle, and he never paid it back.
A jury convicted him of two counts of first-degree intentional homicide.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
