Wood County Circuit Judge Gregory Potter will decide whether a 20-year-old man now in prison will get a new trial. Potter has heard testimony from a trial attorney and a doctor about the case of Miguel Oertel, who shot his ex-girlfriend’s mother to death in April 2016. Investigators say Oertel killed Theresa Coates at her rural home near Wisconsin Rapids after Coates’ daughter told him she was ending their relationship. The judge will determine whether Oertel was insane at the time of the shooting. Oertel has maintained it was an accident.
