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Winnebago County, Wis. (WBAY) – A court has denied an appeal by a man found guilty in a fatal shooting at a Neenah bar.
On Oct. 31, Casey Cameron appeared in court to argue his motion for post-conviction relief. The court found that Cameron had not met his burden of proof and denied his motion.
Cameron, 39, was serving a 40-year prison sentence for the October 2019 murder and was staying at the Short Branch Saloon. During a robbery, Cameron shot and killed patron Kevin “Hollywood” Hayne. Neenah police responded to the scene and found Hayne on the ground with “a large amount of blood” from the head and torso. Hollywood died at the scene.
On February 5, 2021, Cameron pleaded “no contest” to felony murder-armed robbery to murder. He pleaded “no contest” to six counts of first-degree recklessly endangering the safety of other patrons at the bar. The court found him guilty and sentenced him to 40 years in prison.
Cameron filed a motion to vacate the conviction on September 1. He was seeking an order to withdraw his pleas of “no contest” and avoid conviction. Cameron claims his conviction was the result of “prosecution retaliation”. The defense said Cameron’s due process rights under the 14th Amendment were violated.
Cameron wanted to withdraw his no contest pleas on the grounds that the state dismissed the original criminal complaint and filed a new one charging Cameron with four new counts that were not in the original complaint.
On Oct. 3, the state responded to a defense motion saying Cameron did nothing to “inspire the prosecutor’s wrath.”
“The state failed to file the information on time. Whether or not the defendant raised this issue, the statute expressly authorized the court to dismiss the case and the court would have taken that action voluntarily,” reads the response. “The defense does not allege that there is no basis for the new charges.”
The state said Cameron had failed to “establish a realistic possibility of retaliation”.
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