Recent Articles from MaryBeth Matzek, Special to the Wisconsin Law Journal
Attorneys, aid charged in Wisconsin ‘fake electors’ scheme
The charges are the first to be filed by state prosecutors against anyone involved in the scheme that involved 10 Wisconsin Republicans meeting in the state Capitol in December 2020.
Wisconsin AG joins coalition to defend pregnant and postpartum employees
Coalition includes 23 other attorneys general to defend new federal protections
Wisconsin school bus crash sends 2 children to hospital
Another school bus was involved in a crash about a half hour earlier.
Appleton woman sentenced to 20 Years for production of child pornography
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood.
Ozaukee inmate found dead identified
He was arrested by the Mequon Police Department.
Gimbel Reilly Guerin & Brown LLP hires attorney Andrew Flood
Flood joins the criminal defense team.
Postconviction Motion-Plea
Voss, appealed pro se appealing judgments of conviction and an order denying his postconviction motion without a hearing.
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel-Conflict of Interest
Dorgay, pro se, appeals his conviction and the denial of his post-conviction relief motion.
Godfrey & Kahn attorney tapped by Evers to replace UW Regent who refuses to step down
The state Supreme Court ruled in 2022 that political appointees don't have to leave their posts until the Senate confirms a successor.
Wisconsin prison warden quits amid lockdown, federal smuggling investigation
A chronic lack of guards forced the state Department of Corrections to institute a lockdown at Waupun and other facilities.
Wisconsin Republicans react to President Trump’s New York Trial Verdict
Republicans from coast-to-coast commented on what some are calling "a miscarriage of justice.'
Legal News
- Milwaukee drops security personnel ordinance
- Wisconsin Supreme Court tacks on addition 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