The state Supreme Court is upholding the murder conviction of an Abrams man in a 1998 shooting death.
Justices are disagreeing with the arguments from 58-year-old Peter Hanson, more than five years after a jury found him guilty of killing a Green Bay man.
Nineteen-year-old Chad McLean’s body was found in the Pensaukee River, about a month after he was visiting a friend.
The two were drinking with Hanson and another man the last time McLean was seen alive.
The case went cold for 15 years, before Hanson was arrested in 2013. He’s serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, for first-degree murder.
Hanson argues the jury shouldn’t have heard parts of his testimony from a 2012 John Doe hearing. The testimony was about a 2009 statement, made by his estranged wife, that implicated Hanson in the murder. She died before the John Doe hearing.
