The Riverton man accused of binding a man hand and foot, strangling him and fatally slitting his throat two years ago is headed to a felony-level trial court, after Fremont County’s top prosecutor showed proof Wednesday that he acted with premeditation.

John William Goodman, 31, will now be prosecuted in the 2023 killing of Gustave Yellowhair in the Lander-based Fremont County District Court.

He faces a first-degree murder charge, and an alternate theory of felony murder, or the claim that he committed a murder while perpetrating some other felony.

Fremont County Attorney Micah Wyatt gave probable cause supporting both theories, Riverton Circuit Court Judge Dan Stebner ruled after a preliminary hearing Wednesday.

Evidence meeting the probable cause standard is not necessarily e

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