WI Supreme Court Hearing Appeal in Camera Store Double Homicide

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is hearing the appeal of a Minnesota man convicted in killing a father and his teenage son at their La Crosse camera store in 2012.

Jeffrey Lepsch of Dakota, Minnesota, contends his constitutional rights were denied because the jury selection process was flawed in his La Crosse County trial for the shooting deaths of Paul Petras and 19-year-old A.J. Petras at May’s Photo.

Lepsch is currently serving two mandatory life sentences for first-degree intentional homicide, 25 yeas of initial confinement, and 15 years of extended supervision for armed robbery, as well as five years of initial confinement and 15 years of extended supervision for felon in possession of a fire arm, with all sentences running consecutively.

The 4th District of Appeals ruled last year that Lepsch should have objected to the jury selection process at the time and the trial reasonably decided the jurors were impartial.