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Date: 06-28-2022
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State of Montana v. Steven Wayne Keefe
Case Number: 21-0409
Judge: Beth Baker
Court: Supreme Court of Montana on appeal from the Eighth Judicial District Court, Cascade County
Plaintiff's Attorney: Cascade Montana County Attorney's Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Great Falls, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant burglary and three counts of deliberate homicide.
¶2 Keefe, then seventeen years old, was charged with burglary and three counts of deliberate homicide for the murders of Constance McKay, her husband David J. McKay, and their daughter Marian McKay Qamar following an October 1985 home invasion where Keefe shot and killed the three family members. A jury convicted Keefe on all counts in October 1986. The District Court sentenced Keefe to three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole in the Montana State Prison (MSP), with an additional ten years for the burglary charge, and to a ten-year enhancement on each count for the use of a weapon, for a total sentence of three consecutive life terms plus 50 years. Keefe appealed his conviction, and we affirmed in 1988. See State v. Keefe, 232 Mont. 258, 759 P.2d 128 (1988).
State v. Keefe, 2022 MT 121 (Mont. 2022)
Outcome: Affirmed.
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