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But connecting drug dealers to deaths isn't as easy as you might think. The threshold of conclusive proof in such cases is often out of reach. Here's how one local prosecution fell apart.
Jimmie Lee Campbell, 57, of St. Paul had been charged with third-degree murder in the April 2021 overdose death of Tyler Kavitz in a Rochester residence. Prosecutors dismissed the charge due to insufficient evidence. Law enforcement said in court they could not be sure Campbell sold or gave Kavitz the drugs that killed him.