Joshua Scolman appears in Brown County court Dec. 27, 2022, via video conference from Waupun Correctional Institution. PC: Fox 11 Online
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Joshua Scolman was convicted of the racially-based murder of another inmate at the Green Bay Correctional Institution. Now, it’s up to the same jury to decide if he suffered from a mental disease at the time of the attack.
The jury convicted Scolman Tuesday for the Oct. 21, 2022 stabbing death of Timothy Nabors, and attempted homicide for injuring Lamonte Washington during the attack. In both cases, the jury ruled the incidents were hate crimes, as the victims were targeted because they are black.
Scolman also pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease; the so-called insanity defense. If the jury determines Scolman suffered from a psychiatric condition and could not discern right from wrong, he would be placed at a secure mental facility. If the jury holds him responsible for his actions, he would be sentenced to prison.
Testimony for the second phase of the trial continued on Wednesday.
The conviction for first-degree intentional homicide carries a mandatory life prison term, which the judge deciding if Scolman would ever be eligible to ask for parole.
Scolman is scheduled to be in prison until 2058 as a result of a conviction for a drunken driving crash that killed three people in Milwaukee County in 2006.
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