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) — A jury rejected Joshua Scolman’s insanity defense Thursday, holding him criminally responsible for the racially based attack on two other inmates at the Green Bay Correctional Institution, including the death of one of them.
Sentencing is scheduled for Monday. Scolman faces a mandatory life prison term for conviction on first-degree intentional homicide, but Judge Donald Zuidmulder will determine if Scolman is ever eligible to ask for parole.
Earlier this week, the jury convicted Scolman 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.
Because Scolman also pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, the same jury then had to determine if Scolman suffered from a psychiatric condition which made it so he could not discern right from wrong. With its verdict, the panel rejected those arguments.
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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