State Supreme Court Rules On Brantner Drug Convictions
27 February 2020 News
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Tuesday ruled on two appeals for the 66-year-old Kenosha man who killed Berit Beck. Those appeals for Dennis Brantner were for a drug conviction in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court and not the Summer 1990 murder of the 18-year-old Sturtevant woman. Brantner was searched at the County Jail when he was being booked for Beck’s murder and prescription drugs were found in his boot. In July of 2016 he was sentenced to six years and seven months on drug possession and felony bail jumping charges. Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney says the high court affirmed that it was appropriate to try the drug case in Fond du Lac County and not Kenosha County where Brantner was taken into custody. In another appeal Brantner argued that he shouldn’t have been tried separately for two different cases of possession in the same instance, which the court ruled in favor of. Toney says that means 8 of the 10 convictions will stand, but the court remitted that back to Fond du Lac County court in case the judge wants to resentence Brantner. A narcotics possession charge and felony bail jumping charge were vacated with the court’s decision. In March of 2018 Brantner was sentenced to ten years in prison for the 2nd degree reckless homicide of Berit Beck which was in addition to his conviction on drug charges.
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