No-contest plea in Madison block party stabbing

MADISON (AP) -- A Green Bay man is now convicted of stabbing another man five times during a Madison block party.

Twenty-three-year-old Colin Rosenow pleaded no contest Thursday, June 7th to a reduced charge of first-degree reckless endangerment.

Rosenow was accused of stabbing 21-year-old Mathew Warnert during a fight at last year's Mifflin Street Block Party. A charge of attempted first-degree intentional homicide was dismissed under a plea agreement. 

Rosenow faces up to 17 years of combined prison and extended supervision when he is sentenced in about two months.

According to the complaint, Rosenow was part of a group walking by Warnert and his friends when the two started fighting.

Rosenow's trial was to have started next week.

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