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Published December 14, 2012, 08:45 AM

Inmate is guilty of conspiracy to murder attorney

An inmate at the Minnesota Correctional Facility now serving a sentence in Faribault will be sentenced Jan. 16 after being convicted of conspiracy to murder Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom. Jurors reached a verdict Friday, Dec. 7, in the trial of John Stephen Woodward, 49. The jury found Woodward not guilty of conspiracy to commit first-degree assault against a witness in Woodward’s Dakota County criminal case in 2007.

By: Jane Lightbourn, The Hastings Star-Gazette

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