LA CROSSE, Wis. — The man involved in a fatal fight last week in a Menards big-box parking lot was ordered held for $100,000 bind. Judge Elliott Levine set bond for Matthew Kinstler, 50, of suburban Holmen, The charge: First-degree reckless homicide. Prosecutor Susan Donskey told the judge that Kinstler was a flight risk and asked that be set at $1 million: “The defendant has been acting erratically for a while now.” Public defender Zachariah Fudge responded that Kinstler was a lifelong local resident and an eight-year Navy reservist. In settling on $100,000, Judge Levine ordered house arrest for Kinstler and ordered him not to Paulson’s family.
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