The State filed a criminal complaint charging Rector with ten counts of possession of child pornography in violation of Wis.
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Case Digests
Postconviction Relief – Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
David Kilgore appeals a judgment of conviction for two counts of first-degree sexual assault and an order denying his postconviction motion for a new trial.
Read More »Evidence
Ellen Tran appeals from a judgment convicting her, following a jury trial, of first-degree reckless homicide.
Read More »Ineffective Assistance of Counsel- Postconviction Relief
Jeffrey Walker, pro se, appeals a judgment convicting him of three counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child under thirteen years old, five counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child, and one count of child enticement.
Read More »Suppression of Evidence
Police found Miller lying on the sidewalk, bleeding from an apparent gunshot wound.
Read More »Dismissal of Appellate Counsel
In 2007, appellant Scott Njos pleaded guilty to six federal crimes arising from robberies of several stores and a bank, and for attempted escape and assault of an FBI agent after his arrest.
Read More »Warrantless Search – Suppression of Evidence
A jury convicted Travis Beechler of drug trafficking and firearms offenses based on evidence gathered pursuant to a home detention compliance check.
Read More »Class Action Administration-TCPA Claim
The class asserts in this action that CWT violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by calling class members using prerecorded voice messages, a practice the law expressly prohibits.
Read More »Constitutional Amendments-“Marsy’s Law”
When the Wisconsin Constitution was adopted in 1848, it included a process enabling amendments—— an act the people of Wisconsin have seen fit to do almost 150 times.
Read More »Disclosure of Mental Health and Counseling Records
Defendant was charged with sexually assaulting his son, T.A.J., and his daughter. Citing Shiffra, Defendant sought in camera review of T.A.J.'s mental health and counseling records.
Read More »Discovery Violations- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Simmons appeals from a judgment convicting him, following a jury trial, of trafficking a child, as a party to the crime and as a repeater, and from an order denying his postconviction motion.
Read More »Right to a Unanimous Jury Verdict
Burks appeals from his judgment of conviction, entered upon a jury’s verdict, for first-degree reckless injury by use of a dangerous weapon.
Read More »Fraud-Sale of Home
Buth appeals from the order of the circuit court granting summary judgment to Daniel and Jodi Pyawasay (the Pyawasays) and dismissing her claims of misrepresentation and fraud in the Pyawasays’ sale of their home to Buth.
Read More »Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Velez-Figueroa appeals a judgment entered following a jury trial convicting him of second-degree sexual assault of a child and child enticement, and an order denying his postconviction motion.
Read More »Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
According to the criminal complaint, on August 1, 2018, police received information from a youth care worker at the Lad Lake Residential Campus that a resident of the facility, fifteen-year-old S.H., disclosed that she had been a victim of sex trafficking in Milwaukee days earlier.
Read More »Speeding -Legal Justification
Jacobson was stopped by Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper Jody Wood speeding at a speed of eighty-five miles per hour in a seventy-mile-per-hour speed zone, per a speed gun.
Read More »Admissibility of Expert Testimony
According to the criminal complaint, the victim informed law enforcement that she and Wright were at a casino, and, upon returning to Wright’s residence, Wright accused her of stealing some of his methamphetamine.
Read More »Motion to Suppress Confession
According to the criminal complaint, a Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) deputy stopped a silver Kia Sportage in Milwaukee for unsafe passing when it passed a vehicle at a traffic light on the right while the other vehicle was also going straight.
Read More »Postconviction Relief – Sufficiency of Evidence
Mannery was alleged to have engaged in trafficking a child, soliciting a child for prostitution, child enticement–intent to cause a child to engage in prostitution, human trafficking, and physical abuse of a child.
Read More »Class Action-Sovereign Immunity
Twentieth Century Fox Television filmed scenes for the fictional television series Empire at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in 2015.
Read More »Defective Complaint
This case involves a small claims eviction action that was filed in the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, Case No. 2022SC2014 on January 27, 2022 by Berrada Properties.
Read More »Sentencing- Multiplicity Claims
Oungst appeals from a judgment convicting him, upon his guilty pleas, of second-degree reckless homicide by omission and multiple counts of aiding a felon, all as a party to the crime, and four counts of manufacture or delivery of prescription drug.
Read More »Postconviction Relief-Severance-Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Martell A. Green appeals his conviction, following a jury trial, of possession with intent to deliver more than three but not more than ten grams of heroin; possession with intent to deliver more than fifteen but not more than forty grams of cocaine; and possession of drug paraphernalia, each as a party to the crime and as a repeater.
Read More »Postconviction Relief-Evidence-Penalty Enhancers
Hailes appeals his judgment of conviction and two orders of the circuit court denying his motions for postconviction relief.
Read More »Request for Counsel
Joseph DeFilippo appeals from a judgment, entered after a jury trial, convicting him of several offenses arising out of a domestic violence incident, and a subsequent incident with his neighbor.
Read More »Divorce – Maintenance Modification
Curtis Barone Corbeille appeals an order denying his motion to reduce or terminate maintenance he pays to his former wife, Elisa Barone Corbeille.
Read More »Postconviction Motion-Castle Doctrine
Juan Andres Balderas, Jr., appeals a judgment of conviction entered following a jury trial for one count of first-degree recklessly endangering safety, and one count of second-degree recklessly endangering safety, both with the use of a dangerous weapon.
Read More »Postconviction Relief – Evidentiary Hearing
Vayda Herrera appeals from a judgment for physical abuse of a child (her boyfriend’s child), recklessly causing great bodily harm, and an order denying postconviction relief.
Read More »Postconviction Relief-Sexual Assault
According to the complaint, Johnson was an overnight guest in his cousin’s home, and, after a night of drinking, he sexually assaulted then-six-year-old Alice3 and told her not to tell anyone.
Read More »Discretionary Reversal-Movable Property Theft
Misty Ross appeals from a judgment convicting her of theft of movable property and from an order denying her motion for postconviction relief.
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