Jourdain sentenced to 8 years in prison for stabbing death

BEMIDJI—A Bemidji man convicted of stabbing and killing his girlfriend was sentenced to eight years and four months in prison, as well as another four years and two months of supervised release Monday.

Brian Keith Jourdain, 26, was convicted in June of one count of second-degree murder without intent for the killing of Krista Marie Fisherman, 35, of Redby. Jourdain stabbed Fisherman multiple times in the legs on Feb. 13, 2015, cutting her femoral vein and causing her death.

John Schmid, Jourdain's attorney, requested that Judge Paul Benshoof impose a lighter sentence due to what he called Jourdain's "intellectual disability," something that was discussed extensively by attorneys for both Jourdain and the state, but which was never revealed during Jourdain's trial.

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