State v. Breding

VANDE WALLE, Chief Justice.

Damien David Breding appealed from a criminal judgment entered on jury verdicts finding him guilty of two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, and from an order denying his motion for a new trial. We affirm.

During the early Easter morning hours of March 31, 1991, six-year old twins Jennifer and Jessica Peterson died, and their father, Bradley Peterson, was injured, in a fire that occurred at the Peterson residence in Powers Lake. The twins’ babysitter the previous evening, Breding, age 16 at the time of the fire, was subsequently charged with two…