ELKHORN, Wisconsin – Our satellite dish may be frozen but my blackberry isn’t, so here is the latest in Wisconsin v Mark Jensen, the man accused of murder in the antifreeze poisoning of his wife.

Jean Casarez is covering the Jensen trial.

Inmate Bernard Bush is on the stand. Bush has testified he overheard his cell mate, David Thompson, discussing a plan with Jensen to abduct another trial witness and “sit on him.”

Bush said he heard a total figure of $100,000 being discussed with $50,000 up front and $50,000 at the completion of the abduction. Watch what this trial is all about

The would-be abductee? Ed Klug, who testified earlier in the trial about a conversation he had with Jensen at a convention. During a night of drinking in November 1998, Klug said, Jensen told him he was researching how to kill his wife.

The defense just won a victory in argument outside of the jury’s presence. They will be allowed to question Bush about a first-degree murder charge that was pleaded down to harboring a felon.

The importance to the defense? Bush knows fully well what it means to cooperate with law enforcement.

Earlier, witness Quinn Yorton seemed to back Klug’s story. Yorton, a former co-worker of Jensen’s, said he spoke with Klug shortly after Jensen was charged with murder in 2002. Klug related the alcohol-fueled conversation he had with Jensen about “doing away with spouses,” Yorton testified. He recalled Klug being astonished by Jensen’s arrest.

On cross-examination, defense attorney Craig Albee made sure the jury heard that Quinn Yorton didn’t come forward to law enforcement until 2007, well after Jensen had been charged.

– Jean Casarez, In Session correspondent