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Bobbie Jean Joecks
Bobbie Jean Joecks
ELKHORN — A former East Troy woman charged with first-degree reckless homicide in the death of a man who fatally overdosed on methadone will stand trial in October.
Bobbie Jean Joecks, 37, is accused of providing the methadone that killed Jason R. Bodart, 32, on March 26, 2006, according to the criminal complaint.
Attorneys on both sides agreed to begin her three-day jury trial Oct. 6.
Joecks’ attorney, Joshua Klaff, asked the judge to set a status hearing before the trial. The hearing will be Sept. 5.
Joecks appeared in Walworth County Court Wednesday by telephone from Taycheedah Correctional Institution, a women’s prison in Fond du Lac.
She is serving a one-year prison sentence after violating the probation on her 2007 conviction in Waukesha County for obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.
According to the complaint in the reckless homicide case, a surveillance video from Double D's Tavern in East Troy Township showed Joecks placing a large pill in front of Bodart, who swallowed it with a drink.
A witness confirmed what the camera captured, the complaint stated.
The witness told investigators Joecks offered both he and Bodart methadone, a drug often used to treat heroin addiction, according to the complaint.
The witness refused, but Bodart consumed the pill, the complaint states.
Joecks told Bodart that she usually breaks the pills into quarters and that "she couldn't believe Bodart took the whole thing," according to the complaint.
Bodart died in his East Troy Township home of respiratory failure, according to the complaint.
An autopsy revealed that Bodart had a toxic level of methadone in his body.
Joecks denied giving methadone to Bodart, according to the complaint.
She also said she never saw Bodart take methadone, the complaint states.
Prosecutors are allowed to charge reckless homicide against people suspected of providing drugs that cause death by overdose.
A $50,000 bail has been set in Joecks’ case.
She also is charged with felony bail jumping.