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Sep 12, 2018

Abuse of Discretion – Motion for Continuance Denied

Ronnie Cecil Peebles was convicted of battery in the Waushara County Circuit Court.

Sep 12, 2018

5th Amendment Violation

Marquis D. Walls appeals a judgment of conviction, entered on a jury’s verdict, for attempting to flee or elude a traffic officer.

Sep 12, 2018

Abuse of Discretion – Expert Testimony

Natalie Murphy was convicted at a jury trial of first-degree reckless homicide and second-degree recklessly endangering safety in the Juneau County Circuit Court.

Sep 12, 2018

Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

Marcia Render appeals a judgment of conviction, following a jury trial, of one count of second-degree reckless homicide—infliction of physical pain or injury, as an act of domestic abuse, and one count of strangulation and suffocation, as an act of domestic abuse.

Sep 12, 2018

Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

A jury convicted Tyler Montour of attempted first-degree intentional homicide and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Sep 12, 2018

Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

Dontre Johnson appeals an order denying his WIS. STAT. § 974.06 (2015-16) motion for postconviction relief.

Sep 12, 2018

Court Error – Fee Waiver – Default Judgment

Ian Humphrey appeals the judgment entered against him in the amount of $200.50 after he was found guilty following a court trial of operating a motor vehicle while suspended.

Sep 11, 2018

Former Godfrey & Kahn lawyer faces 60-day suspension

A Waukesha County lawyer faces a 60-day suspension of his law license over three counts of alleged misconduct.

Sep 11, 2018

4th Amendment Violation – Unlawful Entry

When Officer Del Pearson and other Chicago police officers executed a search warrant for “apartment 1” at a Chicago address, there was a problem with the warrant.

Sep 11, 2018

Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

In 2002 an Illinois jury convicted Volney McGhee of murder and attempted murder after he shot two men outside a Chicago gas station.

Sep 11, 2018

Suppression of Evidence – Unreasonable Seizure – Firearm

The police received an anonymous 911 call from a 14‐year‐old who borrowed a stranger’s phone and reported seeing “boys” “playing with guns” by a “gray and greenish Charger” in a nearby parking lot.

Sep 11, 2018

Bankruptcy – SSA Payments

Shortly before Peggy Berg filed a petition for bankruptcy, the Social Security Administration (“SSA” or “Agency”) reduced the payment of a back-award that it owed to her by the amount of an earlier overpayment that Berg owed to the Agency.

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