FORMER APPLETON, WISCONSIN, FIRE LIEUTENANT SCOTT SCHMIDT pleaded “not guilty by reason of insanity” Tuesday at a hearing on charges that he murdered his estranged wife and wounded his mother-in-law at an attempt to murder in the driveway of the couple’s home on April 17.
Schmidt enters the courtroom Tuesday
to answer the charges. (Post-Crescent photo)
Firegeezer has been following the story from the beginning HERE and HERE, along with his competency and bail hearings HERE and HERE.
At Tuesday’s hearing, along with his plea, his attorney requested a change of venue for the trial citing a series of newspaper articles in the Appleton Post-Crescent held “the creative writing style of the four-part series contains supposition, inflammatory and pejorative terms and discloses potential evidence.”
WLUK-TV was in the courtroom Tuesday and reported on the plea and describes the process needed to be successful with an insanity defense:
The judge ordered a psychiatric examination on Schmidt and scheduled a review hearing on the mental examination for July 23. A motion hearing to consider change of venue and other motions is set for Aug. 28. Jury selection is set for Nov. 13, to be followed by a five- to seven-day trial.
The Appleton Post-Crescent has MORE.
New details: You can now listen to the original 9-1-1 call with the caller giving an eyewitness account of the shooting as it is happening HERE.
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