The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear the drug conviction case of an over the road trucker from Kenosha convicted in the cold case murder of a Sturdevant teenager in Fond du Lac County. Brantner was convicted of trying to smuggle prescription medication when he was being booked into the Fond du lac County Jail and was sentenced to six and a half years in prison. Issues before the court include double jeopardy, and when an individual is arrested in one county with controlled substances on his person and transported in custody to a different county where the substances are removed. 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. An appeals court upheld the conviction earlier this year. Brantner was sentenced in March 2018 to the maximum ten years in prison for the 1990 death of Berit Beck. As part of a plea agreement Brantner avoided a re-trial on charges of first degree murder when he was convicted last February of second degree reckless homicide.
