Judge sends Wisconsin man to institution in hate crime crash

FOND DU LAC, Wis. — A Wisconsin decide dedicated a person accused of focusing on a motorcyclist in a deadly crash due to the sufferer’s race to life in a psychological establishment Thursday.

Daniel Navarro, a 27-year-old Mexican American from Fond du Lac, was convicted Wednesday of first-degree intentional murder as a hate crime within the July 3, 2020 crash that killed Phillip Thiessen, who was white, in Fond du Lac County. He was additionally convicted of first-degree recklessly endangering security as a hate crime.

Navarro pleaded not responsible by cause of psychological illness or defect. The convictions triggered a second part of his trial through which the jury was tasked with figuring out his psychological state on the time of the crash, a key discovering that helps decide whether or not he ought to face jail time or be institutionalized.

Fond du Lac County District Lawyer Eric Toney stated the jury heard two docs testify Thursday that Navarro suffered from paranoid delusions and schizophrenia. Decide Andrew Christenson dedicated him to the state Division of Well being Companies’ institutional look after life.

Navarro’s lawyer, Jeffrey William Jensen, stated the jury made the fitting name however there is no trigger for celebration in what he described as an “extraordinarily unhappy case.”

“An harmless man is lifeless,” Jensen stated. “And if (Navarro) had gotten assist possibly he would not have ruined his life.”

Thiessen, 55, was a retired particular agent with the Wisconsin Division of Justice and a former police officer.

Prosecutors say Navarro struck his bike head-on within the city of Taycheedah close to Fond du Lac, about 67 miles (108 kilometers) north of Milwaukee. Authorities stated Navarro didn’t know Thiessen.

Navarro informed investigators he had been harassed by co-workers and neighbors, and poisoned, drugged and verbally attacked by white folks due to his race, officers stated.

Throughout an interview on the sheriff’s workplace, Navarro stated he wished to go to jail for the remainder of his life so he might be free from his neighbors, who he may hear making racist feedback by means of the partitions of his home, in keeping with a legal criticism.