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A Kenosha attorney will soon find out if his law license will be suspended over disputed misconduct allegations. The Wisconsin Supreme Court will announce disciplinary actions for Terry Constant on Tuesday.

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A case in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court questions when police officers have reasonable belief to conduct searches without warrants after an arrest.

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Weekly Case Digests – January 20, 2019 – January 24, 2020

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Lukas Steiner will serve as the new Crawford County district attorney. The criminal defense attorney comes from Law Offices of McNamara, Reinicke, Vogelsberg and Helmke in southwest Wisconsin.

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Wisconsin public defenders are on pace to receive pay parity with state prosecutors. The state Senate on Tuesday passed an amended version of Senate Bill 468 to provide a pay-progression plan for assistant state public defenders.

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After his conviction in 2007 for reckless homicide, Joshua M. Wren alleges his counsel failed to file a notice of intent to pursue postconviction relief as promised, causing Wren to lose his direct appeal rights.

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D.I.H. appeals the orders terminating the parental rights of her mother, V.T, and her father, S.D.H., to her. D.I.H. argues that the trial court erroneously exercised its discretion when it concluded that termination of V.T. and S.D.H.’s parental rights was in D.I.H.’s best interests.

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Noah appeals a circuit court order terminating his parental rights to his daughter, Natalie, based on the petition of an organization called Adoptions of Wisconsin, Inc.

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Lucious Emmit Mason appeals from a judgment of conviction for one count of armed robbery with use of force, one count of false imprisonment while using a dangerous weapon, and one count of substantial battery while using a dangerous weapon.

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A bill signed into law on Tuesday makes various changes to municipal court procedures. Senate Bill 214 deals with the process used to form or dissolve joint municipal courts, procedural revisions, budgeting procedures and court fees.

Antonio L. Bell appeals his judgments of conviction for second-degree sexual assault of a child and third-degree sexual assault, as well as the order denying his postconviction motions.

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Pheng Yang appeals from a judgment, entered on his guilty plea, convicting him on one count of second-degree intentional homicide.

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Timothy Sawyer, Laura Sawyer, Diane Wellnitz, and Elizabeth Nadow (“the Interested Parties”) appeal an order ruling that the Estate of Tom W. Sawyer reasonably forgave the remaining balance of a land contract between Beulah Beach, Inc., and his daughter, Kathleen Ferry and her husband James, and denying the Interested Parties’ demand that the Ferrys pay the Estate monies on the land contract and satisfy other alleged obligations.

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Herman Whiterabbit appeals an order denying his WIS. STAT. § 974.06 (2015-16) postconviction motion.

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James L. Jackson, Jr., challenges a provision of the Wisconsin sex offender registry statute, WIS. STAT. § 301.45(2)(a)6m. (2017-18), as violating the First Amendment.

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PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that corrections were made to paragraphs 20 and 23 in the above-captioned opinion which was released on November 27, 2019.

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Toby Vandenberg appeals a judgment, entered upon his no-contest plea, convicting him of seventh-offense operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated (OWI) and an order denying his motion for postconviction relief.

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Bernard Fish, Sr., appeals from both a judgment of conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm and the denial of his postconviction motion.

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The district court revoked Michael Allgire’s supervised release after Allgire skipped out one month into his six-month term at a halfway house.

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In 2013, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) began investigating Dr. Larry Ley and his opioid addiction treatment company, Drug Opiate Recovery Network, Inc. (DORN), for dealing a controlled substance.

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Weekly Case Digests – January 13, 2019 – January 17, 2020

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Rick Esenberg, president and general counsel of the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, said he was initially "a bit angry" after seeing a political cartoon depicting him as an executioner with several nooses. The Cap Times, a Madison newspaper, published the cartoon this week in response to WILL's lawsuit against the Wisconsin Elections Committee.

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A company doing business as TMJ & Orofacial Pain Treatment Centers of Wisconsin will pay $1 million to resolve allegations that the centers submitted false claims to Medicare and TRICARE, a health-care provider for service members and their families.

An attorney who used to work as Gov. Jim Doyle's chief legal counsel and deputy chief of staff is faced with a second suspension of his law license. The Office of Lawyer Regulation filed a complaint against Stanley Davis of The Davis Group, alleging he had taken clients' money without doing the work he promised.

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Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in a case that's giving the justices a chance to adopt or clarify rules about judges' use of social media.

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From time to time an administrative agency changes its interpretation of a statute in a manner that adversely affects a regulated activity.

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Attorney Donald J. Harman has appealed a report and recommendation filed by Referee Allan E. Beatty, concluding that Attorney Harman committed three counts of professional misconduct and recommending that his license to practice law in Wisconsin be suspended for six months.

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Attorney Beth M. Bant appeals the report of Robert E. Kinney, referee, recommending that this court suspend her Wisconsin law license for six months, impose the full costs of this proceeding, and order her to undergo a psychological evaluation for consideration at any future reinstatement proceeding.

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This is a review of an unpublished opinion of the court of appeals, State v. Pope, No. 2017AP1720-CR, unpublished slip op. (Wis. Ct. App. Nov. 13, 2018), reversing the Milwaukee County circuit court's order.

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S.E.M.T. appeals two orders waiving juvenile court jurisdiction over him, sending him to adult court to face charges that include first degree sexual assault and armed robbery.

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