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Chai Soua Vang
Chai Soua Vang mugshot
Chai Soua Vang, 36, of St. Paul, Minn., appears in
court November 2004 to answer charges.
He is accused of shooting
eight hunters, killing six of them.
(Photo Dale Guldan)
Chai Soua Vang
Chai Soua Vang
Chai Soua Vang is escorted into a Dane County courtroom for
the first day of jury selection. Vang is charged with six counts of
first-degree intentional homicide and three counts of attempted
first-degree intentional homicide in the Nov. 21, 2004, shootings in
Sawyer County.
Chai Soua Vang, 36, attends jury selection in his first-degree
murder trial
with his lawyer, Steve Kohn, in Madison, Wis.
Chai Vang appears in
court as a jury is chosen in his trial.
Chai Soua Vang claims
he fired in self-defense when
caught trespassing on private
hunting grounds.
Chai Soua Vang is accused of murdering six hunters, but he
claims he was under attack.
Chai Soua Vang, 36, was escorted into the courtroom where
prosecutors played a call he made to a reporter.
Chai Soua Vang testifies about the deadly confrontation he had
with a hunting party in 2004.
Vang demonstrated how he pointed his rifle during testimony.
Tears drip down Vang's face as he prays and talks with his family
members.
Chai Vang listened as attorneys gave their closing
arguments in his murder case.
Vang prays during a recess as attorneys give their closing
arguments in the case against him.
Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager makes her closing arguments in
the trial against Vang.
Defense attorney Steven Kohn makes his closing arguments.
Chai Soua Vang looks back at the courtroom gallery after the verdict
is read.
Chai Vang sat silently as his nine guilty verdicts
were read.
"Vang (above) has a
chronic history of poor adjustment to stressful interpersonal
situations, perceived
transgressions and limitations to his freedom." - Robert Rawski,
state psychiatrist.
Chai Soua Vang was
convicted of killing six hunters and wounding two others.
Vang (escorted out of court after sentencing) did
not apologize when he was sentenced to six consecutive life terms in
prison. The father of seven said he was happy that the state would
house and feed him for the rest of his life, and that he no longer
would be burdened by a mortgage or child support payments.
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