For Milwaukee criminal defense attorney David Ziemer, Justice David Prosser’s recent retirement announcement means the state’s highest court will be losing a justice who could always be counted on to provide a perspective a bit out of the common run.

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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.

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

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If dictionaries were written by lawyers, one of the definitions for “frustration” would say “finding a case directly on point, but being unable to cite it because it is unpublished.”

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I recently watched the season premiere of my favorite television show.

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A couple weeks ago, I wrote about how I advised a young woman to go to law school. This week is the counterpoint.

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This may seem hard for you younger attorneys to believe, but when I was young, tattoo parlors were outlawed in Milwaukee.

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The school year that starts this fall will be totally different from what it used to be.

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