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  • Judge give Thomas Lee Fairbanks mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole

    Wendy Reuer, Bemidji Pioneer|Sep 12, 2011

    MAHNOMEN, Minn. — Thomas Lee Fairbanks stood solemnly, looking down or straight ahead, as District Court Judge Jeff Remick handed down the mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole Friday in the murder of Mahnomen County Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Dewey. Fairbanks was found guilty of first-degree murder on Sept.1 in Polk County District Court in Crookston. The jury of five women and seven men from Polk County also found Fairbanks, who turns 35 on Tuesday, guilty of nine other charges, while acquitting him of two charges of fir...