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Man Wants Out Of Plea Deal In Double Juneau County Killings

Tetting Accused Of Shooting Man, Woman Last Year

UPDATED: 8:28 am CDT May 15, 2008

A Tomah man wants to withdraw his no contest plea to charges in the drug-related shooting deaths of two people in rural Juneau County.

The lawyer for John Tetting Jr., 25, filed a motion this week to vacate the plea deal, and a hearing on the motion has been scheduled June 2.

Special prosecutor Mike Luell said that he will contest the motion.

Tetting pleaded no contest last month to two counts of being party to second-degree reckless homicide in the shootings of Joshua Alderman, 31, of La Crosse and Tabatha Nealy, 23, of Wisconsin Rapids. Their bodies were found in March of last year in Nealy's car in the Town of Finley north of Necedah.

Criminal complaints said that Tetting drove David Turner, 33, of Tomah, to the secluded spot to discuss a large-scale drug distribution conspiracy with Alderman, formerly of Wisconsin Rapids. That's when Turner allegedly shot the two.

Tetting's lawyer said that he now contends he didn't intentionally aid the crime because he didn't know it would happen when he drove Turner that night.




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