POSTED: Thursday, January 13th, 2011 at 11:23 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

By Marie Rohde Wisconsin’s attorney general is asking an appellate court to overturn a contractor’s conviction on nine felonies of theft, fraud and embezzlement because the prosecutor secretly demanded the victims pay the cost of a key expert witness. “It’s rare for the state to make a full confession of reversible error in a criminal [...]

POSTED: Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 at 5:46 pm

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

Saying the owner of a sunken barge in Milwaukee was a “textbook example of a litigant playing fast and loose with the judicial system,” an appellate court judge Tuesday upheld more than $37,000 in environmental penalties. The case stems from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s seizure of a riverfront property at 260 N. 12th St. [...]