The Fond du Lac County District Attorney says he believes the state has a strong case against a man convicted of trying to smuggle prescription medication when he was being booked into the Fond du Lac County Jail in the cold case murder of a Sturdevant teenager in Fond du Lac County. The state Supreme Court has announced that it would hear the case of Dennis Brantner, after an appeals court upheld his drug conviction earlier this year. District attorney Eric Toney says one of the issues is when an individual is arrested in one county with controlled substances and transported to a different county where the substances are removed. “The presumption would be that he possessed the pills in Kenosha County. Unless somebody’s a magician and can magically grab the pills while they’re in the squad car he would had to have had the pills while he was in Kenosha,” Toney told WFDL news. “I don’t think its a very strong argument. I don’t think the Court of Appeals thought it was either.” The other issue is whether Brantner could be charged twice for violations for possessing pills containing different doses of the same substance at the same time. “In talking with the Attorney General’s Office they were surprised the Supreme Court took the case,” Toney said. Brantner was sentenced in March 2018 to the maximum ten years in prison for the 1990 death of Berit Beck after being convicted of second degree reckless homicide.
