Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
Termination of Parental Rights – Duty of Confidentiality
O.F. appeals the order terminating his parental rights to his daughter, J.G.R. O.F. contends that he was deprived of effective assistance of counsel because his trial counsel violated his duty of confidentiality and loyalty.
Criminal Weapon Possession – Mistrial
Marvin Lee Rogers appeals from the non-final order of the circuit court denying his motion to dismiss a criminal weapon possession charge on the basis of double jeopardy.
Improper Comments
Groenewold appeals a judgment, entered following a jury trial, convicting him of one count of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime and three counts of causing a child to view sexual activity.
Name Change – Discretion
This appeal addresses whether a transgender individual (Robert) met the statutory requirements for a confidential name change under WIS. STAT. § 786.37(4) (2019-20).
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Marquise Lamont Brown appeals his judgment of conviction for second-degree reckless homicide with the use of a dangerous weapon, as a party to a crime, and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Right to Counsel
Lantz appeals from a judgment convicting him of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated (OWI), as a seventh offense.
Sentencing Guidelines
Container Life Cycle Management LLC appeals the judgment and order entered in favor of Mid America Steel Drum Properties, LLC, a reconditioner of steel drums, and 17H LLC (collectively, Mid America), upon a jury verdict which found that Container Life had committed trespass and unlawfully withheld possession of several parcels owned by Mid America, and was unjustly enriched by that conduct.
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Dallas Eugene Robinson appeals from a judgment of conviction, following a jury trial, for felony murder as a party to the crime and from an order denying his motion for postconviction relief.
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel – Juror Bias
The State appeals a postconviction order granting Marris Steven Virgil, Jr., a new trial.
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Ahmed Al Bawi appeals from a judgment convicting him of third-degree sexual assault and from an order denying his postconviction motion to withdraw his no-contest plea.
Evidence-Informant’s Tip
Kluck appeals from a judgment convicting him of operating a motor vehicle with a restricted controlled substance in his blood, as a fourth offense.
Disability Insurance Claim
Plaintiff-appellant Zall worked more than twenty years as a dentist, but chronic pain and numbness in his neck and right arm made it impossible for him to keep working.
Legal News
- Wisconsin Republicans are improperly blocking conservation work, court says
- Man hurt when home in rural Wisconsin explodes has died, authorities say
- Wisconsin Supreme Court changes course, will allow expanded use of ballot drop boxes this fall
- Gov. Evers appoints Travis Maze as Jefferson County Sheriff
- Democrat Dora Drake wins open seat in Wisconsin state Senate
- Wisconsin joins coalition urging Supreme Court to uphold federal ghost gun regulations
- GM will pay $146 million in penalties because 5.9 million older vehicles emit excess carbon dioxide
- NFL is liable for $4,707,259,944.64 in ‘Sunday Ticket’ case
- Milwaukee Police investigating fatal downtown crash
- 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
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