Convicted Zeeland murderer won’t get out of prison

BISMARCK (AP) — A man sentenced to life in prison in a 1976 bank robbery and murder case in Zeeland, N.D., has failed in an attempt to be released from a Colorado prison.

Sebastian Feist filed a handwritten petition in federal court in May, saying he was promised he would be set free in April 2006. He acknowledged his situation is complicated by the fact he escaped once and was later caught, but said that was supposed to delay the release date only by one year.

U.S. District Judge Dan Hovland rejected Feist’s motion on technical grounds, saying it should have been filed in Colorado. But Hovland said if he had jurisdiction, he would have denied the motion.

The 50-year-old Feist is one of three people sentenced to life in prison in the case, in which Zeeland banker Wade Zick and his wife were abducted from their house, forced to take money from the bank vault and then gunned down.

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