Under Pressure: The Milwaukee County Justice System’s Recovery from COVID-19
Some key pillars of Milwaukee County’s justice system are not functioning in the same way or at the same level as prior to the COVID-19 pandemic
Milwaukee Bar Association issues statement on Supreme Court DEI CLE decision
The mission of the Milwaukee Bar Association is to be an inclusive, equitable, and diverse organization.
Doctor convicted for COVID-19 health care fraud scheme
To date, 53 defendants have been charged in nationwide COVID-19 Health Care Fraud Enforcement Actions for causing over $784 million in loss associated with the pandemic.
Teenager charged after throwing gas on a bonfire, triggering explosion that burned 17
A Wisconsin teenager has been charged with triggering a bonfire explosion that injured more than a dozen people.
FBI gives lie-detector tests to family of missing Wisconsin boy
The FBI is helping to look for a 13-year-old Wisconsin boy who disappeared in June, with investigators giving lie-detector tests to relatives and others, a sheriff's detective said.
Teen charged with reckless homicide after accidentally fatally shooting 9-year-old, police say
A 14-year-old boy has been charged with second-degree reckless homicide after accidentally fatally shooting a 9-year-old last month, authorities said.
Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 election
The indictment chronicles how Trump and his Republican allies allegedly attacked a “bedrock function of the U.S. government.”
Jury: Death penalty recommended for Pennsylvania Synagogue shooter
11 people were killed, two additional people were critically wounded, 5 police officers were also injured.
7th Circuit sends decade-long whistleblower case to trial
A three-judge panel in the 7th Circuit has ruled unanimously to send to trial a False Claims Act case alleging Wisconsin Bell submitted and led other to submit false federal subsidy claims under a government program intended to ensure affordable telecom services for schools and libraries.
Police fatally shoot man while trying to arrest him at Wisconsin gas station
Officers fatally shot a man in eastern Wisconsin after he apparently displayed a weapon while they tried to arrest him, police said.
Wisconsin Supreme Court chief justice accuses liberals of ‘raw exercise of overreaching power’
The conservative chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court accused her liberal colleagues of a "raw exercise of overreaching power" after they flexed their new majority Wednesday and fired the director of the state's court system.
Legal News
- Congress to formally investigate Secret Service
- Milwaukee Police Department issues statement regarding video release policy
- GOP convention sets the stage for the Democratic convention in Chicago, activists and police say
- Survey: Harris has enough delegates to be nominee
- Outside the RNC, small Milwaukee businesses and their regulars tried to salvage a sluggish week
- Biden called to resign immediately after the president announces he won’t seek reelection
- Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race, endorses Harris
- Local PA cops allegedly thought Trump’s would-be assassin was Secret Service
- Biden-Lead Secret Service admits agency denied past requests by Trump’s campaign for tighter security
- Class action filed against Walgreens
- Former Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant pleads guilty to smuggling contraband
- Two dead, one injured after Ozaukee County water rescue
Case Digests
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Double Jeopardy; Sentencing
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Sexual Assault-Prosecutorial Misconduct
- Contract-Negligence
- Criminal Law; Juvenile Law; Discovery
- Family Law; Child Support; Property Division First paragraph(s)
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel- Exclusion of Evidence of Witness Bias
- Postconviction Relief-Sentencing-Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- 14th Amendment – Due Process
- Criminal-Sentencing Guidelines – Enhancement
- Bankruptcy-Tax
- Civil Rights – 14th Amendment-Jury Instructions
- Contract; Foreclosure and Property