Judge Denies Sentence Reduction in 1992 Quadruple Homicide

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A decide has refused to cut back the life sentence for a North Dakota man who was a youngster when he fatally shot his mother and father, brother and sister in 1992.

South Central District Choose Bobbi Weiler stated in a 22-page order filed Wednesday {that a} legislation relating to sentence reductions went into impact after Michael Neugebauer’s sentence was last and might’t be utilized retroactively.

As well as, Weiler stated the character of the offense dedicated by Neugebauer “weighs closely in opposition to a sentence discount,” the Bismarck Tribune reported. The decide stated Neugebauer shot each sufferer not less than two occasions on the household’s Menoken-area dwelling east of Bismarck.

Neugebauer’s case was charged in grownup court docket. A state legislation that addresses sentence reductions for juveniles convicted as adults didn’t go into impact till August 2017 and would not apply to instances earlier than that, the decide stated.

Neugebauer filed a movement for a sentence discount listening to in 2020, which was denied. He appealed to the state Supreme Courtroom, arguing that the decrease court docket was mistaken to disclaim his movement and not using a listening to, and the justices agreed.

Neugebauer testified at a listening to in March that he tolerated years of abuse earlier than he shot his father after which entered a kind of tunnel imaginative and prescient wherein he shot the three different members of the family.

“I couldn’t keep in that state of affairs,” he testified.

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