A Brown County jury has convicted the man charged with strangling and killing his cellmate at Green Bay Correctional.
25-year-old Jackson Vogel’s 1st-degree intentional homicide charge also comes with a hate crime enhancer, meaning the jury thought he killed 19-year-old Micah Laureano based on his race and sexual orientation.
WBAY reports that Vogel testified on Tuesday in his own defense, saying it wasn’t based on race or sexual orientation but because of previous sexual advances Laureano allegedly made.
Those allegations have never been brought forward by him before. Prosecutors nor the defense team were questioning if Vogel killed Laureano but if it was intentional.
Vogel faces a mandatory life sentence but could get additional time with the hate crime enhancer.
He will be sentenced on Friday, June 27th.
He was originally in GBCI for an attempted 1st-degree intentional homicide charge after he stabbed a family member in Two Rivers in 2016.
