The public would have access to most police body-camera video under a bipartisan bill passed Wednesday by the state Senate.
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Read More »The public would have access to most police body-camera video under a bipartisan bill passed Wednesday by the state Senate.
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Read More »Wisconsin Republicans are introducing a package of bills that would impose tougher sanctions and sentences on criminals.
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Read More »A judge's order of restitution doesn't make a criminal incident magically disappear, nor does it remove the memory of the incident from the victim's mind. It's an attempt by the judge to make things right for the victim by ordering the convicted person to pay back the victim for criminal wrongdoing against that person.
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Read More »The longest preliminary hearing occurred in Outagamie County in September 1987. It took six weeks.
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Read More »Following a morning of criticism about a proposed criminal code rewrite that would eliminate preliminary hearings, a Wisconsin Judicial Council committee voted to not pursue the change Tuesday.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Judicial Council will discuss a proposed rewriting of the state’s criminal code during its meeting Friday.
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Read More »A bill that would rewrite Wisconsin’s criminal code won’t be passed during the current legislative session, though its sponsor said he will reintroduce it next year.
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Read More »The Assembly’s judiciary committee will hold a public hearing in Milwaukee on Friday for a bill that seeks to overhaul the state’s criminal code for the first time since 1969.
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Read More »A proposal to rewrite Wisconsin’s criminal code is drawing ire from some because of a clause that would eliminate preliminary hearings in felony cases.
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Read More »Revisions to Wisconsin’s criminal code, a project 20 years in the making, are getting closer to the state Legislature. A 300-page proposal is before the Wisconsin Judicial Council, which is expected to review the proposal prior to a September meeting, ...
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