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Dancing around the Dahmer files

Nathan Schilz is walking a fine line by putting Jeffrey Dahmer at the center of a musical.

Don’t rub it in

I went to the Milwaukee City Attorney’s Office ready for a fight. Fresh from writing stories about pro se litigation, I thought I could handle my run-in with a parking ticket.

Don’t be so judgmental

I don’t know why Court of Appeals decisions that describe journalistic tactics taken by TV stations amuse me. But they do, and I found another one.

Food for thought: What happens when attorneys, witnesses, jurors co-mingle

I guess I thought it would be a bigger deal if attorneys, witnesses and jurors in the same case went to eat in the same place. But I was wrong.

Eviction case should be evicted

Sometimes, it’s pretty easy to sense frustration in an appeal.

Access to Justice Commission’s report reads like a mission statement

The Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission’s new report says many interesting things about the state’s civil legal system.

When pro se goes bad, Part II

Remember that defendant I wrote about on Wednesday who was representing himself in his incest trial? Well, on Thursday he threatened to call the FBI on Milwaukee County Circuit Judge David Borowski.

When pro se goes bad

See, this is why you don’t represent yourself in court.

It’ll be hard to level manslaughter charges against Wisconsin co-sleepers

I know parents sharing a bed with their kids is a hotly contested issue. When I lived in Pensacola, Fla., the area’s medical examiner put her face on multiple billboards that essentially said “Don’t do it. It’s dangerous and I should know, I do the autopsies.”

Term limits could take an interesting path

It will be interesting to see how likely a soon-to-be-proposed bill regarding state Supreme Court term limits fares as it makes its way through the Legislature.

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