State v. Flieger

KAROHL, Judge.

Defendant was sentenced in accord with a jury verdict to serve life without probation or parole for murder first degree. The indictment charged defendant with a deliberate killing of Patricia Gradley, his neighbor, on March 18,1985. It alleged he committed the murder by striking her numerous times with a blunt object. The medical examiner found fractures in both arms and a massive skull fracture caused by as many as seven blows. The state’s theory was defendant was motivated by jealousy because the victim rejected him in favor of another, a married man. Defendant did not…