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Shawano man gets 2 life sentences for double slaying

By: Associated Press//January 21, 2014//

Shawano man gets 2 life sentences for double slaying

By: Associated Press//January 21, 2014//

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OCONTO, Wis. (AP) — A Shawano man convicted of killing a woman and her brother in 2009 has been sentenced to two consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole.

An Oconto County jury found 30-year-old Daniel Lee Schmidt guilty last October of two counts of first-degree intentional homicide. The convictions carry a mandatory life sentence, but Judge Michael Moran had the option Tuesday of allowing for the possibility of parole.

Prosecutors say Schmidt was cheating on his wife with 36-year-old Kimberly Rose.

Rose and her 26-year-old brother, Leonard Marsh, were fatally shot in 2009 at Rose’s home southwest of Gillett. Prosecutors say Schmidt killed Rose to prevent her from disrupting his marriage and to keep her from revealing his marijuana-growing operation.

Messages left with Schmidt’s public defenders Tuesday were not immediately returned.

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