Milwaukee lawyer pleads not guilty to battery, stalking felonies

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A Milwaukee lawyer is pleading not guilty to felony charges for abusing and stalking a woman for years. Matthew Meyer of Meyer Van Severen entered the plea in Milwaukee County Court on Monday morning.

The 34-year-old is faced with four felony charges for substantial battery, threats to communicate derogatory information, intimidating a victim, damaging property and stalking. A criminal complaint filed against Meyer said he stalked, threatened and abused a woman he had been in an on-and-off relationship with for three years. Some of the allegations detailed in the complaint said he beat the woman so severely she had to take two weeks off work, threatened to use his criminal defendants to hurt her family and friends, and called her more than 120 times a day.

Meyer and his attorney, Robert LeBell of LeBell, Dobroski, Morgan, in Milwaukee, appeared in court on Monday. LeBell addressed a motion he submitted Oct. 25 to disqualify the Office of the Milwaukee District Attorney and to appoint a special prosecutor, and entered a plea of not guilty on Meyer’s behalf. Meyer waived his right to a preliminary hearing, and he was bound over for trial. He has a scheduling hearing set for Nov. 12.

The Wisconsin Law Journal left a message with Meyer’s office for comment and has yet to hear back. Follow @TDR_WLJDan