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News » Jury selection to start for Schmidt murder trial
Mar. 4, 2010
The case against a former Appleton firefighter accused of murdering his estranged wife is moving to Stevens Point for the day.
The Scott Schmidt trial is officially scheduled to start tomorrow with opening statements at the Outagamie County justice center, but today, Judge John DesJardins and attorneys from both sides are at the Portage County courthouse to pick a jury.
Jurors are coming from that area because of pre-trial publicity.
The 39-year-old Schmidt is charged with the April 2008 shooting death of Kelly Wing Schmidt, and attempted murder for wounding her mother, Barbara Wing.
Once the jury is in place, members will travel to Appleton by bus every day throughout the trial.
They'll have to rule on two different things during the trial -- first on whether Schmidt is guilty or innocent of the crime, and then if he's convicted, whether he is not guilty by mental disease or defect.
Shortly after he was arrested for the shooting at Wing Schmidt's Grand Chute home, Schmidt resigned from the fire department. |
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