A man convicted of beating a Milwaukee gas station clerk to death with a baseball bat has been sentenced to life in prison.

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A second man convicted in the fatal shooting of a 5-year-old girl as she sat on her grandfather's lap in Milwaukee has been sentenced to prison.

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One of two men convicted of firing the gunshots that killed a 5-year-old girl as she sat on her grandfather's lap in Milwaukee has been sentenced to 65 years in prison.

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A judge has sentenced a Milwaukee woman to 10 years in prison for a tax fraud and an identity-theft scheme involving her sisters and two other accomplices.

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A judge sentenced a Milwaukee man to 50 years in prison Thursday in the killing of a 13-month-old boy who died when authorities say the wrong house was shot up during a dispute between drug dealers.

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The Wisconsin Judicial Council is starting the process to select new leadership.

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Joseph Peltz comes from a family of entrepreneurs.

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An expected plea deal has hit a snag for two Milwaukee police officers charged with failing to intervene when another officer conducted illegal strip searches and body cavity searches.

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A Milwaukee County judge has sentenced a former police officer to 20 days in jail for "not stepping up" when fellow officers were performing illegal searches of suspects.

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A Wisconsin woman who had been repeatedly warned not to leave her children alone was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison and 18 years of extended supervision after three of them died in a house fire.

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Despite a few recent cases in which a mental defense was raised, local judges, attorneys and court observers say there has been a decline in the frequency of the defense.

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Defense attorney Frank Gimbel did not want to question his client John Spooner in court recently, but was forced to when the 76-year-old insisted upon taking the stand.

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A Milwaukee man knew exactly what he was doing when he accused his teenage neighbor of burglary and then fired a bullet into the boy's chest, jurors decided Friday. The verdict essentially guarantees that 76-year-old John Henry Spooner will die behind bars.

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Against the wishes of counsel, 76-year-old John Spooner took the stand Thursday afternoon during a trial to decide whether he was mentally ill when he shot and killed 13-year-old Darius Simmons in May 2012.

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Jury selection began Monday in the case of a 76-year-old white man charged with gunning down a 13-year-old black boy last year on a Milwaukee sidewalk over a theft allegation.

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A former Milwaukee police officer convicted of performing illegal strip searches and body-cavity searches on dozens of suspects has been sentenced to more than two years in prison.

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An 18-year-old Milwaukee man has been sentenced to life in prison for the killing of a 15-year-old girl last year.

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Prosecutors can proceed with a case against four Milwaukee police officers charged with conducting illegal strip searches of suspects, a judge ruled Friday.

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The lawyer for a Milwaukee man accused of shooting and killing his teenage neighbor over allegedly stolen guns says his client plans to use an insanity defense.

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Federal immigration officials say they won’t get involved in a work release sentence for an illegal immigrant in Milwaukee County. Armando Rodriguez-Benitez was recently sentenced to 11 months in jail for driving drunk the wrong way on ...

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee woman caught on video trying to smother her infant son at a hospital has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Twenty-five-year-old Erika Gutierrez had been charged a year ago with eight counts of child ...

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Two Milwaukee County Circuit Court judges - Jeffrey A. Conen and Jeffrey Wagner - led the courts in facing review on appeal in 2010. Both were reviewed 23 times in 2010, and affirmed 23 times, without reversal.

"It's certainly gratifying to hear that," Judge Wagner said. "We all try to do our best."

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