An appellate court is upholding a 2020 Ashwaubenon murder conviction for an Oconto Falls man.
WBAY reports that the ruling against 50-year-old Dennis Sutrick says there were no grounds to challenge his conviction or to challenge a ruling that denied Sutrick’s postconviction motion to withdraw his plea.
Sutrick used multiple arguments to claim that his trial attorney was ineffective.
The appeals court found all arguments lacked merit, and that many were already addressed in his postconviction motion.
Back in 2020, people at an Ashwaubenon Motel 6 reported a loud argument and then heard Sutrick in the hallway yelling for help.
A motel employee and guest found a woman unconscious in a bathtub.
They performed CPR on the woman while Sutrick left the scene.
An autopsy found that she had died from blunt force injury to the head.
Sutrick was sentenced to 40 years in prison and 15 years of extended supervision after he took a plea deal that reduced a charge of 1st-degree intentional homicide to 1st-degree reckless homicide.
