ROCHETER, Minn. – A judge refused to lower the $5 million bail under which a former Mayo clinic doctor is held for the death-by-poison of his wife. Judge Kathy Wallace said the severity the crime bespeaks Connor Bowman being a flight risk. In effect, the judge said tjat that Bowman, facing a murder conviction, would have little to lose in an attempt to get away. Bowman’s attorney, Michael Schatz, had noted that Bowman’s assets and passwords had been frozen and that has no means to flee. Judge Wallace was unswayed. She noted too that Bowman has has no family roots to keep him in Rohester.
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