MILWAUKEE — Just days after a jury found a Milwaukee man guilty of killing and dismembering a 19-year-old college student after a first date in 2024, his defense team filed a motion to dismiss one of the charges.
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Prosecutors charged Maxwell Anderson with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, hiding a corpse, and arson in connection with Sade Robinson’s death. The jury convicted Anderson on all four counts on Friday, June 6.
A couple of days later, on June 8, his defense team filed a motion to dismiss one of the counts against him.
According to court documents, the motion, which was officially filed on June 9, specifically targets Count 4—hiding a corpse—which was added by prosecutors shortly before the trial began.
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Anderson's defense argues that, according to Wisconsin law, a person cannot be convicted of both mutilating a corpse and hiding the same corpse. The document states that a Wisconsin statute specifically identifies hiding a corpse as an "included crime" when mutilating a corpse is charged.
"Upon prosecution for a crime, the actor may be convicted of either the crime charged or an included crime, but not both," the defense motion stated, citing Wisconsin statute 939.66.
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Anderson is due back in court on August 15 at 10 a.m. for a sentencing hearing.
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