No plea deal in death of disabled woman near Grantsburg
There apparently will not be a plea deal for the former head of a northwest Wisconsin camp where a disabled woman took the wrong medicine and died.
There apparently will not be a plea deal for the former head of a northwest Wisconsin camp where a disabled woman took the wrong medicine and died.
Marjorie Ann Hjelseth, 67, of Roseville, Minn., appeared Tuesday in Burnett County Circuit Court. And she turned down the state’s offer to reduce her charges in exchange for a guilty plea.
That means her case will head for a trial. No date has been set for the next proceeding.
Hjelseth was the director of the Trade Lake Camp in Grantsburg, where Shirley Meade, 49, was found dead last July.
Authorities said she was given a prescription drug intended for somebody else and she was left to sleep it off when she died.
Hjelseth is charged with second-degree reckless homicide and subjecting a person at risk to deadly abuse.
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