Pete Orput to Prosecute Little Falls Thanksgiving Day Homicide Case
Byron Smith is charged with second-degree murder in the deaths of Haile Kifer and Nicholas Brady, two cousins who were repeatedly shot after they broke into Smith’s home in Little Falls on Thanksgiving Day.
The Washington County Attorney's Office will prosecute the Little Falls homicide case of a 64-year-old man who is accused of shooting two teens who broke into his home on Thanksgiving. Orput told the Pioneer Press the Minnesota County Attorneys Association called him on behalf of the Morrison County attorney's office to ask if he’d try the case. The case, the president of the county attorneys association told Orput, is that the case would be contentious because of the gun issue. "If that's a challenge,” Orput told the Pioneer Press, “I want it.” Morrison County will pay per diem for mileage, meals and rooms if necessary, Orput told Stillwater Patch on Wednesday. “The attorney time is not billed, but county attorneys routinely take conflict…
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Thomas
1:54 am on Saturday, January 5, 2013
I have been robbed twice while living in St. Paul, My wife at the time was raped 2 times, While living in West St Paul. We moved back to Stillwater. Anyone breakes in our house while I am home will not leave there in the same condition they came in. This Smith guy had the right idea but did himself a disfavor by not call ing the Police right away after the problem was solved. I can't say I would … more ›