Recent Articles from BARBARA L JONES
Verdict reversed under Miranda doctrine
A man sentenced to 68 months in prison for starting a fire has a second chance.
Law salary survey is good news, bad news
How you view the Robert Half Legal 2014 Salary Guide could reveal a lot about you.
Smoothing ups, downs of litigation
The see-saw of negotiations and, even worse, imagining the up and down of jury deliberations can frighten the most experienced trial lawyer or insurance adjuster. The more vulnerable the client, the greater the fear.
Stuck in the law firm ‘doughnut hole’
It’s a great time to be an associate, or hiring one.
Assault conviction for unprotected sex reversed, says Minn. Supreme Court
An HIV-positive man cannot be prosecuted for assault for having unprotected sex with a consenting partner, the Supreme Court has ruled.
Minn. restitution ruling raises questions
It was a highly unusual move when a Minnesota judge, U.S. District Court Judge Patrick Schiltz, recently issued a written order chiding federal prosecutors for failing to request restitution in a child-pornography possession case. A federal law, 18 U.S.C. sec. 2259, requires a court to order restitution in the full amount of a victim’s losses […]
Minn. high court decision is a blow to Intoxilyzer
Minneapolis — In a decision that will have far-reaching effect on criminal prosecutions, the Minnesota Supreme Court has decided that drivers charged with DWI are entitled to the Intoxilyzer source code so long as they make a threshold showing the code relates to their guilt or innocence. Having to produce the source code presents a […]
Federal judge allows DWI suspects to intervene
Minneapolis — A federal judge has allowed four DWI defendants to intervene in a lawsuit between the state and the maker of the Intoxilyzer over the device’s source code. U.S. District Court Judge Donovan Frank, rejecting a magistrate judge’s recommendation, said that the state of Minnesota cannot adequately represented the interests of the intervenors and […]
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