Defense pins blame on other teen in Wis. killing

Associated Press

June 18, 2013

Defense attorney June Spoerl talks with Nathan Paape, 14, as he appears Wednesday June 12, 2013, at a motion hearing for his murder trial in Sheboygan, Wis. Jury selection for Paape is set to begin Friday, June 14, 2013 in Sheboygan, Wisc. Paape and Antonio Barbeau were both charged as adults in the September slaying of Barbeau's great-grandmother. Barbeau pleaded no contest earlier this month to a charge of first-degree homicide.

SHEBOYGAN — The attorney for a 14-year-old boy contends the boy's friend planned the murder and robbery of the friend's great-grandmother at her Sheboygan Falls home.

Jurors heard opening statements Monday in the trial of Nathan Paape (pahp) of Sheboygan.

The defense says Paape had come home from school last September when his friend, Antonio Barbeau, arrived with a hatchet and laid out a plan to murder and rob Barbeau's great-grandmother, 78-year-old Barbara Olson.

Defense attorney Chris Petros says Paape followed his friend into Olson's home and watched as Barbeau attacked Olson with a hatchet.

Sheboygan Press Media (http://shebpr.es/1amJ1gt) reports District Attorney Joe DeCecco told jurors that Paape and Barbeau conspired to and then carried out a plan to rob and kill Olson.

Barbeau pleaded no contest this month to first-degree homicide.