Wisconsin Law Journal – WI Legal News & Resources Wisconsin Legal News & Resources

LAS VEGAS (AP) — An ex-felon has pleaded not guilty to killing a 24-year-old adult-entertainment model and encasing her body in a concrete structure found in the desert outside Las Vegas. Christopher Santo Prestipino’s attorney, William Terry, declined to comment ...

The Republican-controlled Senate fired the state agriculture secretary on Tuesday, and the Democratic governor who appointed him watched quietly a row behind lawmakers before using profanity to blast the process.

Tagged with: Gov. Tony Evers Scott Fitzgerald Senate

The 61-year-old white man accused of throwing acid on a Hispanic man's face in Milwaukee once held four hunters at gunpoint on his Wisconsin property during a chilling encounter.

Tagged with: acid

Burnett County's special prosecutor is taking on the role of district attorney for the county. Gov. Tony Evers announced James Rennicke's appointment as Burnett County district attorney on Tuesday.

Tagged with: James Rennicke

The state Senate has signed off on two bills that would stiffen drunken-driving penalties — and possibly generate millions of dollars in new prison costs.

Tagged with: drunken driving

A 19-year-old man charged with first-degree murder in northeast Iowa has been found guilty of a lesser crime.

A Dane County road with a “lengthy and relatively complex litigation history” is at the center of an eminent domain case in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Tagged with: Eminent domain Mark Steichen Matthew Fleming Rebecca Dallet Wisconsin Supreme Court

Dane County circuit court judge Jill Karofsky has gained more endorsements in her 2020 race for a seat on the state Supreme Court. She said on Monday that 48 Wisconsin judges are supporting her campaign.

Tagged with: Dan Kelly Ed Fallone Jill Karofsky

Milwaukee police arrested a man suspected of throwing battery acid on a Hispanic man who says his attacker asked him, "why did you come here and invade my country?"

Tagged with: acid Immigration President Donald Trump

Wisconsin agriculture officials say new federal rules on industrial hemp production won't impact the 2020 growing season.

Tagged with: hemp

The Milwaukee lawyer Robert Menard said suspending his license for at least a year would be fair punishment for mismanaging his clients' money. Menard, who billed himself as a lawyer for the "average Joe," is accused of stealing $700,000 from his former law partner, his uncle and his clients.

Tagged with: Derzon & Menard office of lawyer regulation OLR Robert Menard

Not guilty pleas have been entered on behalf of Richland Center's police chief, who's charged with sexual assault and theft.

A man accused of killing one of Louisiana's oldest whooping cranes is scheduled to change his plea and be sentenced in the state where more of the endangered cranes have been killed than any other.

A Michigan judge has handed a victory to a company seeking to build a tunnel that would house a Great Lakes oil pipeline.

Tagged with: Enbridge Straits of Mackinac

A jury on Thursday acquitted a La Crosse man accused of killing his former girlfriend and disposing of her body in a lake.

Tagged with: Erik Sackett homicide Tim Gruenke

Wisconsin election officials are refusing to name a handful of local clerks that testing showed may be vulnerable to cyberattacks.

Republicans who control the Legislature's budget committee signed off Thursday on the state's first settlement under laws that granted them oversight of Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul's legal negotiations.

Tagged with: John Nygren Josh Kaul

The Wisconsin Public Defenders Office revealed at a hearing on Thursday that it's struggling to find candidates for public defender positions.

Tagged with: Kelli Thompson pay progression Wisconsin State Public Defender

A discrepancy in pay for prosecutors and public defenders is threatening to tip the scales of justice in Wisconsin.

Tagged with: Kelli Thompson pay progression Prosecutors State Public Defender

Wisconsin lawmakers are preparing a bill that would allow college athletes to hire agents and profit from their names starting in 2023.

The Richland Center police chief has been charged with sexually assaulting a bartender and stealing her tips.

Attorney General Josh Kaul waded into the thorny world of emergency mental-health detentions Thursday, convening a summit to devise ways to prevent police from spending hours transporting detainees to treatment centers.

Tagged with: Gov. Tony Evers Mendota Mental Health Institute

The man who kidnapped Jayme Closs and killed her parents got into a fight in a New Mexico prison with an inmate who asked about the case.

Tagged with: Jake Patterson Jayme Closs

With the rise of social media, dozens of states are grappling with how services like Facebook fit with the Code of Judicial Ethics.

Tagged with: Daniel Blinka Mark Seidl Miller v. Carroll Social media

Brendan Dassey’s legal team is advocating for what they are calling Dassey’s best chance at a life outside prison.

Tagged with: Asked & Answered Brendan Dassey Laura Nirider Seth Waxman Steve Drizin

Authorities say longtime Disney enthusiast and Milwaukee Bucks center Robin Lopez unknowingly purchased rare items stolen from Disney World in Florida.

The partisan squabbling over a $110,000 grant for a suicide prevention hotline continues as the group waits to receive the funding a month after lawmakers approved releasing it.

Tagged with: suicide

Milwaukee County's newest circuit court judge is Milton Childs, a managing attorney at the Wisconsin State Public Defender's Office.

Tagged with: Joe Donald Milton Childs

The possession of small amounts of marijuana would be decriminalized in Wisconsin under a bill that Democratic lawmakers introduced Wednesday in their latest push to loosen Wisconsin's marijuana laws in the face of Republican opposition.

Tagged with: Gov. Tony Evers Mandela Barnes marijuana

A Wisconsin man could spend 30 years in prison for selling stolen Kohl's Cash on Twitter. Robert Gordon pleaded guilty to two federal counts related to fraud last week.