A man convicted in a Manitowoc homicide has had his appeal denied.
The Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction after 51-year-old Dejaun Deshazer made four claims arguing against it.
Deshazer shot and killed Robert Bauer, a Manitowoc Police drug informant, in 2017.
His attorney argued that a threatening text allegedly toward Bauer, failure to challenge some testimony, failure to introduce evidence about a cell phone, and not objecting to “prosecutorial misconduct” during closing arguments were enough for him to get a new trial.
The Court of Appeals ruled that there was nothing objectionably unreasonable about Deshazer’s trial and his attorney’s strategy.
It was Bauer’s girlfriend who saw the shooting and called 911.
While she didn’t know who the person was at the time, she only knew that the shooter had thick, chest-length dreadlocks.
Three days after the shooting, a wig with long black dreadlocks was found in a ditch not far from the crime scene.
DNA from the wig linked back to Deshazer, who was already facing a previous drug charge.
Deshazer is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
