Iowa court denies review over Minn. teen’s trials
Published 12:40 pm Saturday, May 7, 2011
DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Supreme Court will not review a motion seeking to combine the trials of a Minnesota teenager charged with killing two convenience store clerks in northern Iowa.
The court denied the review Friday. The order is posted on the state’s online court system.
Seventeen-year-old Michael Swanson, of St. Louis Park, is charged as an adult with murder and robbery in Kossuth and Humboldt counties. He’s accused of killing a clerk in Algona on Nov. 15, then driving to Humboldt and killing another clerk.
Swanson’s lawyer, Charles Kenville, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, asked the high court to review a lower court decision against combining the trials.
Kenville said he had no comment on the Supreme Court’s decision.