KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man convicted for a second time of killing his wife with antifreeze and by suffocation in 1998 was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole. A Kenosha County judge sentenced Mark Jensen, 63, who was convicted by a jury in February of first-degree intentional homicide in the death of his wife, Julie Jensen. Prosecutors alleged ...
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Second jury finds Wisconsin man guilty in wife’s slaying
A jury found a Wisconsin man guilty Wednesday in a second trial for killing his wife with antifreeze and by suffocation in 1998.
Read More »Wisconsin man’s retrial begins in wife’s antifreeze death
Prosecutors and attorneys for a Wisconsin man accused of killing his wife with antifreeze in 1998 delivered opening statements Wednesday in his retrial, nearly two years after a judge vacated his previous conviction.
Read More »High court won’t get involved in Wisconsin murder case
The Supreme Court is declining to disturb a decision that a Wisconsin man convicted of poisoning his wife should get a new trial.
Read More »Poisoning death conviction vacated, man heads back to trial
A judge has vacated the conviction of a man who is heading back to trial in Kenosha County on charges of killing his wife with antifreeze.
Read More »New trial on tap for Wisconsin man convicted of killing wife
A Wisconsin appellate court has ordered a new trial for a man convicted in the poisoning death in 1998 of his wife.
Read More »Lower bond rejected in fatal poisoning case
A man being retried in the 1998 poisoning death of his wife in Kenosha County will remain jailed on more than $1 million bond.
Read More »Defense seeks writings of Kenosha County man in retrial (UPDATE)
A defense attorney for the man being retried in the 2002 poisoning death of his wife in Kenosha County wants access to writings the defendant allegedly made while in prison which were seized by prosecutors.
Read More »Bond set for man convicted in wife’s death after poisoning (UPDATE)
A judge set a $1.2 million bond Wednesday for a Wisconsin man once convicted in his wife's death after prosecutors said he poisoned her with antifreeze in an effort to make her death look like a suicide.
Read More »Man to be retried in wife’s 2008 poisoning death
A Wisconsin man whose conviction in his wife's death by antifreeze-poisoning was overturned in 2013 will be retried.
Read More »DOJ asks appeals court to reconsider ruling in poison death
The state Justice Department has asked a federal appellate panel to reconsider overturning the conviction of a man found guilty of fatally poisoning his wife.
Read More »Appeals court affirms voided conviction in poisoning death
A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court's decision to void the conviction of a Pleasant Prairie man accused of fatally poisoning his wife with antifreeze.
Read More »7th Circuit hears appeal in poisoning death (UPDATE)
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has heard arguments in the case of a Wisconsin man whose conviction for poisoning his wife was overturned.
Read More »State appeals Jensen’s overturned conviction
State prosecutors filed an appeal Friday of a federal judge's decision overturning a Wisconsin man's conviction for killing his wife with poison.
Read More »Brother of victim is shocked conviction is vacated
The brother of a Wisconsin woman killed 15 years ago with antifreeze said Friday that he was at first shocked when he heard a judge overturned her husband's conviction in the case.
Read More »Judge vacates man’s conviction in wife’s poisoning (UPDATE)
A Wisconsin man convicted of poisoning his wife 15 years ago was improperly tried because he couldn't confront his dead wife and her "letter from the grave" implicating the husband as the primary suspect, a federal judge has ruled.
Read More »Supreme Court won’t hear Jensen appeal
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court won’t hear Mark Jensen’s appeal of his conviction for killing his wife. The state Court of Appeals’ decision in December upholding Jensen’s 2008 murder conviction will stand. The 51-year-old Jensen is serving a life sentence for poisoning his wife, Julie Jensen. He was convicted a decade after his wife’s death after a ...
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