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   A retired Juneau County judge who was gunned down in his home   
   Friday morning had sentenced his alleged killer to six years in   
   prison for armed burglary and other weapons charges in 2005,   
   online court records show.   
      
   Douglas K. Uhde, 56, shot and killed John Roemer, 68, after   
   entering the judge's home in the town of Lisbon around 6:30   
   a.m., the state Department of Justice said in a statement   
   Saturday.   
      
   Law enforcement officers tried to negotiate with Uhde before   
   entering the residence around 10:15 a.m., the DOJ said. In the   
   home, they found Roemer dead and zip-tied to a chair and Uhde in   
   the basement with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a law   
   enforcement official told The Associated Press on condition of   
   anonymity.   
      
   Uhde was taken to the hospital and remains in critical   
   condition, the DOJ said.   
      
   Investigators have said Uhde planned to target other government   
   officials and found a list in his vehicle that included Roemer,   
   Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, Senate Minority Leader Mitch   
   McConnell and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, said the official   
   who was not authorized to discuss details of the investigation   
   publicly.   
      
   The 56-year-old has an extensive criminal and prison record   
   spanning at least two decades.   
      
   In 2005, Uhde was convicted in Adams County Circuit Court of   
   burglary while armed and other weapons offenses, including   
   possession of a short-barreled shotgun or rifle.   
      
   Roemer was not the judge at the time the case was initially   
   tried in 2002 but did preside over the withdraw of Uhde's no   
   contest plea and subsequent reconviction after a court of   
   appeals reversed his earlier conviction, sentencing him to six   
   years in prison and nine years of extended supervision.   
      
   Uhde has later convictions for escape/criminal arrest, fleeing   
   an officer, driving a stolen vehicle and obstructing police.   
      
   His 2005 conviction came at the end of a lengthy series of court   
   fights in the case, which began with an incident in August 2001.   
   After pleading no contest in 2002, Uhde pursued an appeal and   
   succeeded in withdrawing his plea, according to online court   
   records.   
      
   After his attorney withdrew from the case, Uhde appears to have   
   represented himself, was reconvicted and appealed again.   
      
   For his subsequent offenses, Uhde was sentenced — by other   
   judges — first to 9 months in jail for the escape in 2007, and   
   then seven years in prison and four years of extended   
   supervision for fleeing police and driving a vehicle without the   
   owner's permission in 2008.   
      
   According to court records, the escape conviction came after   
   Uhde walked away from a job site in Baraboo while an inmate at   
   the Fox Lake Correctional Institution. He pleaded no contest in   
   Dodge County and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. He   
   appealed the conviction because the job site was in Sauk County,   
   but the appeal was denied.   
      
   After Uhde escaped, a truck owned by Easter Seals was reported   
   stolen in Wisconsin Dells. Rome police found a salt spreader and   
   other items that had been in the truck 10 days later.   
      
   Uhde's former girlfriend told police she was afraid Uhde might   
   come to her house. She received three phones calls from him the   
   next day, according to court records. Uhde told her he was   
   driving a newer pickup truck. Police tracked the call to a pay   
   phone and put the truck under surveillance.   
      
   Two days later, a woman spotted Uhde standing in his ex-   
   girlfiend's yard. Later that night, police saw a truck fitting   
   the description of the one Uhde was driving outside the ex-   
   girlfriend's home and where she worked.   
      
   When police got closer, the truck drove away. Following a high-   
   speed chase, Uhde drove the truck into a ditch and field,   
   causing it to burst into flames. Officers found Uhde hiding near   
   a log after he was tracked by a police K9.   
      
   Records show Uhde was released on community supervision in 2015,   
   but was returned to prison in 2019. He was released from prison   
   on April 14, 2020, and was under community supervision at the   
   time of the shooting.   
      
   The Associated Press contributed to this report.   
      
   https://madison.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/retired-juneau-   
      
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