Judge Reads STUNNING Verdict in 7-Year-Old’s Death

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: All right, Michelle, ready? All right, we're gonna go back on the record. Student Wisconsin versus Timothy Hochholtz, case number 19, CF 75. Peerances, please. State appears by Jacqueline LaVrie and Jill Venditti along with Special Agent Hayes. Tim Hochholtz appears with Donna Kugler, Brad Nevreski, Kate Bowler. All right, thank you, folks. I have been informed that the jury has reached a verdict. Is the state ready to proceed to accept the verdict? Yes, Judge. Is the defense ready to proceed to accept the verdict? We are. All right, before we call the jurors and folks, I want to again say what I said earlier. I appreciate the fact that everyone has been really well behaved throughout the pendency of this trial. Motions often run high in cases and I hope that you're going to be able to continue to conduct yourselves in the manner that you have throughout this whole trial. The court will be forced to remove anyone who is disruptive. And with that, let's have our jurors brought back. [00:01:28] Speaker ?: Let's have our jurors brought back. So, let's have a jurors brought back. Let's have a jurors brought back. Let's have a jurors brought back. Let's have a jurors brought back. Let's have a jurors brought back. Let's have a jurors brought back. Let's have jurors brought back. Let's have jurors brought back. Let's have jurors brought back. Let's have jurors brought back. Let's have jurors brought back. Let's have jurors brought back. Let's have jurors brought back. Let's have jurors brought back. Let's have jurors brought back. Let's have jurors brought back. let's have jurors brought back. Let's have jurors brought back. Let's have jurors brought back. Let's have jurors brought back. Thank you. [00:02:56] Speaker 1: Hello, black folks. Glad you'd be seated. Okay. And Madam Foreperson, has the jury reached a verdict? Yes, Your Honor. And is that verdict, or are the verdicts unanimous? [00:03:24] Speaker 2: Yes, they are. [00:03:24] Speaker 1: If you could please pass those to our bailiff. Thank you, Madam Clerk. [00:03:54] Speaker ?: Thank you. [00:04:24] Speaker 1: All right, the verdicts do appear to be in proper order. Mr. Hochschultz, would you please stand for the reading of the verdict? I'll read them one at a time. Count one, neglect a child, consequence is death. We, the jury, find the defendant, Timothy Hochschultz, guilty of neglecting a child, consequence is death as charged in count one of the amended information. Count two, we, the jury, find the defendant, Timothy Hochschultz, not guilty of intentionally contribute to the delinquency of a child, resulting in death as charged in count two of the amended information. Count three, we, the jury, find the defendant, Timothy Hochschultz, guilty of partly to a crime, physical abuse of a child, intentionally cause bodily harm, as charged in count three of the amended information. Count four, we, the jury, find the defendant, Timothy Hochschultz, guilty of intentionally contribute to the delinquency of a child, as charged in count four of the amended information. Count five, we, the jury, find the defendant, Timothy Hochschultz, not guilty of partly to a crime, physical abuse of a child, intentionally cause bodily harm, as charged in count five of the amended information. Count six, we, the jury, find the defendant, Timothy Hochschultz, guilty of partly to a crime, physical abuse of a child, intentionally cause bodily harm, as charged in count six of the information. All verdicts signed on today's date, signed by the foreperson, is, uh, either party requesting that the jurors be pulled? Yes. [00:06:40] Speaker ?: Okay. [00:06:41] Speaker 1: Let me see it, sir. So, folks, defense is requesting that I pull the jury, that is common in, uh, cases, and so what that means is I will, uh, start with the back row, I'll start with you, sir, and I'll just go down the line, I'll, uh, ask you if it's your verdict, and if it is the jury's verdict. [00:07:02] Speaker 3: So, all right. Is this the jury's verdicts? [00:07:11] Speaker 2: Yes. [00:07:11] Speaker 3: And are these your verdict? [00:07:13] Speaker 2: Yes. [00:07:17] Speaker 3: Are these the jury's verdict? Yes. Are they your verdicts? [00:07:21] Speaker 2: Yes. [00:07:24] Speaker 3: Are these the jury's verdicts? [00:07:26] Speaker ?: Yes. [00:07:26] Speaker 3: Are these your verdicts? Are these the jury's verdicts? [00:07:32] Speaker 2: Yes. [00:07:33] Speaker 3: Are they your verdicts? [00:07:34] Speaker 2: Yes. Are these the jury's verdicts? [00:07:39] Speaker 3: Are they your verdicts? Are these the jury's verdicts? [00:07:44] Speaker ?: Yes. [00:07:45] Speaker 3: Are they your verdicts? [00:07:46] Speaker ?: Yes. [00:07:47] Speaker 3: Are these the jury's verdicts? [00:07:49] Speaker ?: Yes. [00:07:50] Speaker 3: Are they your verdicts? Yes. Are these the jury's verdicts? [00:07:55] Speaker ?: Yes. [00:07:55] Speaker 3: Are they your verdicts? [00:07:56] Speaker ?: Yes. [00:07:58] Speaker 3: Are these the jury's verdicts? Yes. Are they your verdicts? Yes. Are these the jury's verdicts? [00:08:05] Speaker ?: Yes. [00:08:06] Speaker 3: Are they your verdicts? Are these the jury's verdicts? [00:08:10] Speaker ?: Yes. [00:08:11] Speaker 3: Are they your verdicts? [00:08:13] Speaker 1: Yes. [00:08:13] Speaker 3: And are these the jury's verdicts? Yes. Are they your verdicts? - Yes. - All right, thank you folks for that.