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Kaul: Testing complete on thousands of sexual-assault kits
Attorney General Josh Kaul says testing is finally finished on thousands of unanalyzed kits for sexual-assault evidence.
Assembly bill would require assault-kit testing within 90 days
The Wisconsin Department of Justice would have to test sexual-assault kits within 90 days of collecting them under a new state assembly bill. The Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety met Thursday for an executive session and a public hearing on the proposal.
“Abhorrent, disgusting, frightening”: Activists testify before Assembly about bestiality bill
Wisconsin lawmakers and animal-rights activists spoke out in support of a bill to make bestiality a felony. Speakers at the public hearing on Thursday cited possible reasons why people might engage such behavior, blaming a cultural phenomenon and the occult.
Wisconsin Senate passes new protocols for sexual-assault kits (UPDATE)
The Wisconsin Senate is poised to approve bills that would establish new protocols for storing and tracking kits used to process sexual-assault evidence.
Retired Wisconsin priest acquitted of sexual assault
A Wisconsin jury on Friday acquitted a retired Catholic priest on charges alleging that he had sexually assaulted an altar boy over several years, starting in 2006.
Sexual assault kit tests yield first conviction
The state Justice Department has won its first conviction using results from testing thousands of unanalyzed sexual assault kits.
Tougher child-porn penalties sought in Minn.
Minnesota’s county attorneys think a newly defined aggravating crime factor, child pornography with kids under age 13, should be treated more severely than the state’s Sentencing Guidelines Commission is contemplating.
Report: DNA backlog at state crime labs cut in half in 2019
As Attorney General Josh Kaul and Gov. Tony Evers advocate for more DNA analysts at the Wisconsin Department of Justice, new data show the backlog of DNA evidence at the state's crime labs has been cut by nearly half in 2019.
Ex-Oshkosh YMCA worker charged with child sex assault
A former daycare worker at the Oshkosh YMCA is charged with sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl.
Badger receiver pleads not guilty to sexual assault
University of Wisconsin receiver Quintez Cephus has pleaded not guilty to charges alleging that he sexually assaulted two drunken women in his apartment this past spring.
Judge orders Wisconsin receiver to trial on assault charges (UPDATE)
A judge ordered Wisconsin the receiver Quintez Cephus to stand trial Tuesday on charges that he sexually assaulted two drunken women this spring, rejecting a motion from his attorneys to dismiss one of the counts alleging that the women weren't as impaired as investigators say.
Schimel announces sex assault kit testing complete (UPDATE)
Attorney General Brad Schimel says the state Department of Justice has finished testing thousands of unanalyzed sexual-assault-evidence kits dating back to the 1980s.
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