The May 28th decision of the Wisconsin Supreme Court in Matter of Judicial Disciplinary Proceedings Against Hon. Annette Ziegler, 2008 WI 47, sets the stage for what will next occur regarding Judge Michael Gableman, newly elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and the numerous complaints that have been filed against him arising out of the [...]
Well, the unrelenting swiftboating I previously decried in this column worked as intended in last Tuesday’s election for state Supreme Court justice. The lies and distortions of the third-party groups’ ads were compounded by television ads run directly by Judge Michael Gableman’s campaign that criticized Justice Louis Butler for doing his job to effectively represent [...]
Aw c’mon, stop it! The latest round of television ads, the most recent coming directly from the campaign of Circuit Judge Michael Gableman, who is challenging Justice Louis Butler for his seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, represent a new low in judicial campaigns in Wisconsin. Last year’s round of ads sponsored by third party [...]
The recent guilty verdict in the hard-fought homicide by poisoning case of State v. Mark Jensen has focused public attention on the “forfeiture by wrongdoing” rule, the parameters of which will be further defined by the United States Supreme Court in Giles v. California, Docket No. 07-6053. The Court granted certiorari in Giles in January [...]
New Year’s Resolution 2008 — don’t be afraid to ask the question. Bev Butula’s recent blog submission on using Internet mapping search engines is not only very helpful, but reminds me of the importance of “going outside the box” in legal research. I do a lot of criminal defense work, as well as civil litigation. [...]
It is the holiday season again, and whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid or whatever, it is a time when many of us tend to be more charitable and forgiving of our fellow human beings. Is it because we recognize that we are all one big family? Or do we remember to apply the Golden [...]
Last month’s arrests and shutdown of operations in England and the Netherlands of OiNK, the latest Napster-like attempt at peer-to-peer shared music downloads, was easily overshadowed in the news by the shutdown of the free press and public expression in Pakistan by General (and President for Life) Pervez Musharraf. Nonetheless, the iron heel still sounds [...]
The First Tuesday in October 2007 has come and gone, with the United States Supreme Court taking up the important issue of what amount of judicial discretion should exist in the post-Booker world for a District Judge to sentence below the United States Sentencing Guidelines. The Court heard oral argument in Kimbrough v. United States [...]
Ray Dall'Osto is a veteran criminal defense and constitutional law attorney, who practices with Gimbel Reilly Guerin & Brown in Milwaukee. As a former ACLU legal director and public defender, Ray is resolute and unwavering in his defense of our constitutional rights. For more on him, click here.
