'That includes factual defenses, and it includes potential mental health or mental responsibility defenses,' Mr. 'That would make him or her unable to mediate between the two worlds, which is the core of the shaman's role,' Mr. But Vincent Her, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin who studies traditional Hmong culture, said he did not believe that shamans could go into a trance so deep that they would lose touch with the physical world, even in a situation of extreme stress. Vang's role as a shaman is in any way connected to the shootings. Vang's family, evidently concerned about its safety and weary of the publicity that the case has brought, has moved from its two-story home on the city's east side to an undisclosed location. Judge Yackel, who cited security concerns in holding the hearing at the jail rather than at the courthouse across the street, set the next court date for Dec. Yackel of Sawyer County Circuit Court asked Mr.

On Tuesday, handcuffed and wearing a prison-issued orange jumpsuit, he was taken to the basement of the county jail in Hayward, Wis., to hear the charges. Vang with six counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder. On Monday, prosecutors formally charged Mr. The eight other hunters were all shot in an ensuing confrontation with him, the police say.

21 when, the authorities say, he was caught trespassing on private land in Wisconsin's North Woods, a popular destination for deer hunters in late November.

The events that led to the charges against Mr.

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