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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COURT GESTURES: 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.
Read More »COURT GESTURES: When pro se goes bad
See, this is why you don’t represent yourself in court.
Read More »THE DARK SIDE: Cite this column, but not the opinion
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definitions for “frustration” would say “finding a case directly on point, but being unable to cite it because it is unpublished.”
The Justice Department is wonderful
I recently watched the season premiere of my favorite television show.
Read More »On disillusion with the law and Walser
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about how I advised a young woman to go to law school. This week is the counterpoint.
Read More »My tattoos are ‘expressive activity’
This may seem hard for you younger attorneys to believe, but when I was young, tattoo parlors were outlawed in Milwaukee.
Read More »David Ziemer: Bullying and breeding new attorneys
The school year that starts this fall will be totally different from what it used to be.
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