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Apr 29, 2024
Bully-boy police tactics get bulldozed by Court of Appeals
Repeated threats by police to arrest a woman who refused permission to search her house, police refusal to allow her to go inside where her
Apr 25, 2024
Appeals court rejects state's effort to rewrite judicial substitution law
Requesting a judicial substitution after the original trial judge is identified but not yet officially assigned is allowed under the law, th
Apr 23, 2024
Summary: State appeals grant of plea withdrawal in Packing House theft case
Even shorter than the case "briefs" I've been posting, these summaries - lifted straight from appeals documents - allow me to cover even...
Apr 22, 2024
Summary: WMC's challenge to school revenue limit increase
Even shorter than the case "briefs" I've been posting, these summaries - lifted straight from appeals documents - allow me to cover even...
Apr 17, 2024
News take: SCOW hears arguments on amazing reach of legislative committee power
Gov. Evers' challenge to a few legislators' ability to permanently hold up spending was heard today at the state Supreme Court. The JS...
Apr 17, 2024
Rebecca Bradley says some defendants must seek judicial substitution before even knowing knowing who the judge is
Some defendants in criminal cases should be required to make judicial substitution requests before knowing who the assigned judge is,...
Apr 14, 2024
Appeals court upholds judge who ignored order for new trial, sentenced man on dismissed charge instead
A Rock County Circuit Court judge who ignored an appeals court order to hold a new trial did not err when he reinstated a dismissed count...
Apr 12, 2024
Well. Crap.
And I even had the slogan for my t-shirt. SCOW Justice Ann Walsh Bradley announced she would retire and not seek re-election. Now what?...
Apr 11, 2024
State DOJ weighs in on state's harassment injunction law: Lesser standard of proof could be appropriate
The burden the state must meet to show in civil harassment case that defendant's knew his words or acts could be interpreted as a "true...
Apr 8, 2024
In Brief: Judge erred in refusing reverse waiver for autistic 14-year-old who killed a girl, appeal says
State v C.T.P.-B Appeal: 24AP189 Filing attorney: Michael Cohen, Alicia Linzmeier Judge: Chippewa County Circuit Judge Steven Gibbs "In...
Apr 3, 2024
The state's harassment injunction law an issue in abortion protester case
Updated 4/11/24 to correct End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin acronym. Applying a U.S. Supreme Court criminal case ruling to state harassment...
Apr 1, 2024
Appeals court upholds new trial ordered "in the interest of justice" in county bus death case
The widow of a man killed by a Milwaukee County Transit System bus as he crossed the street deserves a new trial in her civil case "in...
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