Recent Articles from dmc-admin
Postconviction Claims Without a Hearing-Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Minor and his father were each charged with one count of trafficking a child.
Suppression of Evidence-Reasonable Suspicion
According to the criminal complaint, police officers on patrol in the City of Milwaukee on April 1, 2018, stopped a Ford Expedition on West Atkinson Avenue for suspected traffic code violations.
Postconviction Relief-Postconviction Pleading
Love was convicted upon a jury’s verdict in 2012, for counts of second-degree reckless homicide by use of a dangerous weapon as a party to a crime and possession of a firearm by a felon, both with the habitual criminality penalty enhancer.
Suppression of Evidence
Wells, pro se, appeals from a judgment convicting him of possession of a firearm by a felon.
Involuntary Medicate-Competency Evaluation
Fieste faced charges for making threats to assault and murder two federal judges, three former U.S. presidents, and the current President.
Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act
At the age of 13, G.G. fled her home and tragically fell victim to a sex trafficker who used the now-defunct Backpage.com to advertise her services.
Sufficiency of Evidence-Obstruction of Justice
Agbi, originally from Nigeria but a U.S. resident since 2016, played the role of a middleman in a scheme that involved creating fake online dating profiles to swindle unsuspecting elderly individuals out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Title VII-EEOC Ruling-Retaliation
In 2016, Fuller, a medical technician at the VA, began seeking treatment for mental disorders.
Excessive Force-Summary Judgment
The DEA had affixed a tracking device to Tousis's vehicle.
Pretrial Release Termination
Storme faced charges related to cyberstalking and unauthorized intrusion into a cell phone.
Admissible Evidence-Hearsay
A supplier shipped substances containing detectable amounts of methamphetamine, cocaine, and MDMA from California to Indiana. In Indiana, Medrano and his associates used the U.S. Post Office and a post office employee to distribute these drugs.
Illinois Cable and Video Competition Law
The Illinois Cable and Video Competition Law mandates that operators must secure statewide authorization to be recognized as "holders," while those wishing to offer cable or video services must obtain approval from state or local authorities and pay a fee for the privilege of utilizing public rights of way.
Legal News
- Milwaukee drops security personnel ordinance
- Wisconsin Supreme Court tacks on additional months to already suspended lawyer
- Supreme Court: Abortion protester’s First Amendment rights violated
- These doctors were censured. Wisconsin’s prisons hired them anyway
- Ruling reinstates lawsuit over ‘Black Lives Matter’ school posters
- Wisconsin Supreme Court to consider whether 175-year-old law bans abortion
- Wisconsin man facing bestiality and felony bail jumping charges
- Waukesha County woman indicted in National Health Care Fraud Law Enforcement Action
- Man sentenced to 15 months for fraud involving luxury vehicles
- Wisconsin Department of Justice Fire Marshal investigating fire that killed six
- Ozaukee County first responders save family of three, father and son on Milwaukee River
- Supreme Court sends Trump immunity case back to lower court, dimming chance of trial before election
Case Digests
- Termination of Parental Rights
- First Amendment Rights
- Termination of Parental Rights
- Late Filing
- Real Estate-Attorney Fees
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- Variance-Interpretation of Zoning Ordinances
- Sentencing
- Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause-Jury Instructions
- Unlawful Collection Practices-Evidence
- Sentencing-Vindictiveness
- Prisoner Grievances-Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies