Fourth Amendment Violation – Sale of Seized Property
A person arrested in Chicago can take some property into jail but must surrender other property, including cell phones.
4th Amendment Violation – Search & Seizure Religious Accommodations
West is confined at Wisconsin’s Green Bay Correctional Institution where he must undergo strip searches by prison staff on regular occasions.
Employment – Retaliation
Scaife worked as a Human Resources Classifier at the Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Indianapolis.
Insurance Claim – Workers’ compensation
Danny Cope was injured on a job site in Kentucky and filed a workers’ compensation claim.
Civil Procedure-Mootness
Article III of the Constitution limits federal courts to deciding live Cases or Controversies.
Termination of Parental Rights
Jessica appeals from an order terminating her parental rights (TPR) to her daughter, and an order denying her motion for postdispositional relief.
Abuse of Discretion – Evidentiary Hearing
Willie Allison appeals a judgment, entered upon a jury’s verdicts, convicting him of three counts of human trafficking, as a repeater; one count of second-degree reckless injury, as a repeater; two counts of delivering three grams or less of heroin, as a second or subsequent offense, with one count as a party to a crime; and one count of maintaining a drug trafficking place, as a second or subse[...]
Court Error – Postconviction Motion Denied
Robert C. Stryker, pro se, appeals a judgment of conviction for first-degree sexual assault of a child and an order denying his motion for postconviction relief.
Divorce – Child Placement Order
Julie C. Valadez appeals from a judgment of divorce terminating her marriage to her former husband, Ricardo Valadez.
Sentence Credit
Tanya M. Liedke appeals from an order denying her motion for correction of sentence credit.
Plea Withdrawal – Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Daimon Von Jackson, Jr. appeals from a judgment of conviction entered after his no contest plea to second-degree reckless homicide as a repeater with the use of a dangerous weapon contrary to WIS. STAT. §§ 940.06(1) (2013-14),1 939.62(1)(c), and 939.63(1)(b) (hereinafter “second-degree reckless homicide”), and from an order denying his postconviction motion seeking to withdraw his plea.
Legal News
- 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
- Brewers have American Family Field escalators inspected after malfunction results in 11 injuries
- US wants Boeing to plead guilty to fraud over fatal crashes, lawyers say
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