Death Sentence Affirmed in Dru Sjodin Kidnap Case
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:11 am
MINNEAPOLIS – A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed the death sentence of a convicted rapist for the 2003 kidnapping and killing of a University of North Dakota student in a case that led both Minnesota and North Dakota to toughen their sex-offender laws.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., of Crookston, Minn., got a fair trial and rejected his bid to overturn his death sentence.
The ruling came three years to the day that a federal jury in Fargo, N.D., decided Rodriguez should die for kidnapping resulting in the death of Dru Sjodin. The jury earlier found him guilty of abducting Sjodin on Nov. 22, 2003, from the parking lot of a Grand Forks, N.D., shopping mall where she worked.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090922/ap_ ... ent_appeal
Hope he gets schived in the yard.....
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., of Crookston, Minn., got a fair trial and rejected his bid to overturn his death sentence.
The ruling came three years to the day that a federal jury in Fargo, N.D., decided Rodriguez should die for kidnapping resulting in the death of Dru Sjodin. The jury earlier found him guilty of abducting Sjodin on Nov. 22, 2003, from the parking lot of a Grand Forks, N.D., shopping mall where she worked.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090922/ap_ ... ent_appeal
Hope he gets schived in the yard.....