GREEN BAY (WLUK) — After more than one year and over 5,000 unsuccessful attempts at finding an attorney, a judge is giving the state Public Defenders Office one more chance to find an attorney for the man accused of providing the gun one 5-year-old used to kill another 5-year-old in 2022 before the judge uses a different mechanism to assign him an lawyer.
Jordan Leavy-Carter, 38, is charged with second-degree reckless homicide, neglecting a child – consequence is death and being a felon in possession of a firearm for the Oct. 17, 2022, shooting on Amy Street on Green Bay’s east side.
Skye Bleu Evans-Cowley was killed.
While trial dates had been set for November 2024, Leavy-Carter’s attorney, Jevon Jaconi, fell ill and then died in January 2025. Since then, the state has made 5,422 contacts, but hasn’t found an attorney for Leavy-Carter, Judge Tim Hinkfuss said in court Friday…