$3M cash bail for suspect in Wis. border shooting

[951-Riverside]

Source: The Associated Press

A Wisconsin judge set a $3 million cash bail for the Michigan man charged with shooting and killing three teens at a river on the state border.

Marinette County District Attorney Brent DeBord had asked for $5 million bail, calling Scott J. Johnson an "extreme flight risk" because he spent time in the military and has traveled extensively. Johnson's public defender had asked for $1 million bail.

Johnson, 38, of Kingsford, Mich., was charged with three counts of first-degree intentional homicide. According to a criminal complaint, he went to the Menominee River on July 31 and opened fire on a group of swimmers, killing three and injuring one.

One charge each of attempted first-degree intentional homicide and sexual assault could be added, DeBord said Thursday. Johnson told police he sexually assaulted a woman at the river the day before the shooting, the complaint said.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/08/06/national/a142511D82.DTL&hw=homicides&sn=010&sc=583

[Richard Steele]

1. When your Public Defender pleads for a MILLION dollar bail, get comfy in your cell.

Because you aren't gonna be relocating any time soon.

[elocs]

2. Rest assured, jail is the safest place for this guy to be. n/t

[MichiganVote]

3. Why offer the creep anything?

[RollWithIt]

4. Triple Murder can get bail?

huh?