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An Appleton woman could spend up to 25 years in prison for stealing $1.3 million from her former employer and using it to go on luxury vacations and cruises.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice would have to test sexual-assault kits within 90 days of collecting them under a new state assembly bill. The Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety met Thursday for an executive session and a public hearing on the proposal.

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Wisconsin lawmakers and animal-rights activists spoke out in support of a bill to make bestiality a felony. Speakers at the public hearing on Thursday cited possible reasons why people might engage such behavior, blaming a cultural phenomenon and the occult.

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Weekly Case Digests – October 14, 2019 – October 18, 2019

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A Milwaukee criminal defense attorney is allowed to still practice law while he undergoes his own court proceedings for abusing, threatening and stalking a woman.

A former lawyer at Husch Blackwell's Milwaukee office is faced with a public reprimand for misleading her employers and clients about her inactive law license.

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Tyler Yost appeals from a judgment of conviction and an order denying his postconviction motion.

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This case addresses the enforceability of a purported settlement agreement entered into by the parties at the end of mediation, in which the parties agreed to sign a separate “substantive agreement” that would address “such things” as liability and indemnity in “usual form.”

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Daniel J. Deroo appeals from a judgment convicting him of ten counts of possession of child pornography and from an order denying his postconviction motion for sentence modification.

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Troy K. Kettlewell appeals from a judgment of conviction for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence (OWI), fourth offense.

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Taurus Donnell Renfro appeals a judgment of conviction, following a jury trial, of one count of carrying a concealed weapon.

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Jeffrey Edward Olson, pro se, appeals the trial court’s order denying his postconviction motion for plea withdrawal.

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Lara Bush-Pensy appeals from an order denying her motion for relief from a harassment injunction entered in favor of Timothy Pflieger.

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In these two consolidated cases, Shane Robbins, pro se, appeals a judgment of conviction for thirteen felonies and two postconviction orders.

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Larry Lokken appeals a judgment convicting him of three counts of misconduct in office and five counts of theft in a business setting, as a party to the crime, each of an amount greater than $10,000.

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This appeal presents the question whether a bankruptcy court can determine the amount of a debtor’s tax obligations, when the debtor is unlikely to pay them.

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The Marquette County Courthouse sounded like a math classroom during oral arguments in a Wisconsin Supreme Court case on Monday. The justices asked two attorneys appearing before them how they’d calculate fines in a felony OWI case involving a baby in a car and a blood alcohol concentration more than four times the legal limit.

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Sitting around tables in the Southeastern Oneida Tribal Service Office in Milwaukee over the weekend, small groups of Marquette Law School students, attorneys and tribal members were talking about death. Yet what sounded like somber discussion provided relief for many, as they were completing estate planning documents.

The opinion of this court issued on September 18, 2019, is amended as follows...

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The Indianapolis 500 race has been a fixture of American life since 1911, interrupted only by world war.

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Tywon Salters, a pretrial detainee in Kane County, Illinois, swallowed some cleaning fluid, apparently in an effort to commit suicide.

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These two appeals present straightforward issues of contract law, but with some procedural complications.

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The petition for rehearing en banc is GRANTED. The opinion and judgment entered by the panel are VACATED.

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Dennis Davis is an Illinois prisoner suffering from kidney disease.

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Weekly Case Digests – October 7, 2019 – October 11, 2019

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A Milwaukee man who spent more than six years in prison for a dismissed attempted-homicide charge won't receive monetary compensation for his time. The State of Wisconsin Claims Board denied Michael Winston's $275,000 claim on Tuesday.

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The Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) and Attorney Elizabeth Farrell have filed a stipulation pursuant to Supreme Court Rule (SCR) 22.12 that Attorney Farrell be publicly reprimanded, as discipline reciprocal to that imposed by the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon.

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Donald Lecheler, pro se, appeals a $2,000 small claims judgment in favor of his former tenant, Steven K. Stack.

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Summit Credit Union initiated this action in the Dane County Circuit Court seeking a money judgment against David L. Mancl after Mancl failed to pay amounts due on his credit card account with Summit.

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Scott Carrington Matthew appeals an order (1) vacating a default judgment entered in Matthew’s favor against Elite Team Auto Brokers, LLC, its owners, and a manager (collectively, Elite) and (2) dismissing Matthew’s action without prejudice for lack of personal jurisdiction under WIS. STAT. § 801.05 (2017-18).

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