A Green Bay man was sentenced to a decade in prison for stabbing a 57-year-old woman on New Year’s Eve 2024.
At 11:12 p.m. Dec. 31, 2024, Green Bay police officers responded to an apartment in the 1600 block of Harold Street and found a woman with two stab wounds, according to a criminal complaint. The victim told police that Junius Jackson, now 40, stabbed her, the complaint said.
Jackson was charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide, disorderly conduct and bail jumping. In March 2025, two counts of conspiracy to commit victim intimidation were added against Jackson after prosecutors said he contacted the victim from jail and asked her to drop the charges against him.
Jackson pleaded no contest Feb. 19 to first-degree reckless injury with the use of a dangerous weapon, misdemeanor bail jumping and felony victim intimidation as a party to a crime. All of the charges had domestic violence modifiers.
The charges were reduced through plea negotiations, which Assistant District Attorney Bryant Dorsey said did not reflect any weaknesses in the prosecution’s case. The state had phone calls between Jackson and his mother after the stabbing, which Jackson accidentally recorded through an app on his phone, that included Jackson admitting to stabbing the victim, Dorsey said at Jackson’s April 27 sentencing.
“The state felt that the amendment on the reckless injury was ultimately in the public interest,” Dorsey said.
Dorsey said the incident was a “very, very aggravated case” with “an aggravated history,” pointing to previous domestic abuse from Jackson to the victim. He said Jackson had made threats to kill the victim in the past and “he attempted to do so in this case.”
The victim suffered serious injuries, was hospitalized for weeks and remains permanently disabled, Dorsey said. When he was first assigned the case, Dorsey said doctors questioned whether the victim would even survive.
Defense attorney Jason Farris noted Jackson had below average intelligence, mental illnesses and a problem with drug use. Jackson’s actions were serious, Farris said, but “this is not premeditated sort of behavior, this was, frankly, irrational behavior based on the fact that he was not medicated, the fact that he was using drugs at the time.”
In his own statement to the court, Jackson apologized and said he has been taking steps toward rehabilitation. “I’m not some evil person. … I just need your help. I’d just like a second chance,” Jackson said.
Farris said there was no question a prison sentence was required for the seriousness of the offense, but said that additional rehabilitative support “will long-term do more to protect the community than simply locking him up and throwing away the key.”
The victim appeared in court by Zoom and asked for leniency with Jackson’s sentence.
Brown County Circuit Court Judge Marc Hammer said while he believed Jackson was remorseful and had mental health concerns, Hammer couldn’t find that the stabbing was an isolated incident, due to mental health, due to Jackson’s intelligence or due solely to drug use.
“You engage in this pattern of behavior over and over again, involving areas that are dangerous for you and dangerous for your family and dangerous to the community,” Hammer said.
Hammer sentenced Jackson to 10 years in prison followed by five years on extended supervision.
Vivian Barrett is the public safety reporter for the Green Bay Press-Gazette. You can reach her at vmbarrett@usatodayco.com or (920) 431-8314.
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