Jury Selection Begins In Jakubowski’s Federal Trial

Jury selection begins this (Monday) morning in the federal trial of Joseph Jakubowski, the Janesville man accused of stealing weapons and eluding officers for ten days. His trial is expected to last 2-3 days in U-S District Court in Madison on charges of stealing firearms from a dealer and possessing those weapons as a convicted felon, and a trial is set for next month on state charges. It’s not known if the 33-year-old Jakubowski will testify on his own behalf this week. That’s after officials said he broke into a Janesville gun shop and took 18 weapons in April — wrote a 161 page anti government manifesto to President Donald Trump — and was the target of a manhunt until he surrendered in rural Vernon County. Federal Judge William Conley says Jakubowski cannot introduce anything that could signal an insanity defense, and he cannot argue that the Second Amendment allowed him to possess firearms.