Gov. Tony Evers is seeking applicants for open positions for a Milwaukee County judge and a Crawford County district attorney. He announced both vacancies on Friday.
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Read More »Gov. Tony Evers is seeking applicants for open positions for a Milwaukee County judge and a Crawford County district attorney. He announced both vacancies on Friday.
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Read More »An attorney’s recent representation of a defendant charged with child sexual assault was so ineffective that the defendant’s constitutional right to counsel was violated and his convictions reversed.
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Read More »In a hotly contested case about suppressing a dog’s sniff search of a residence, the Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously decided that the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applied.
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Read More »Four Wisconsin Court of Appeals judges were selected Thursday to serve on the Government Accountability Candidate Committee to help select potential new judges.
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Read More »One of Gov. Scott Walker's former key Milwaukee aides was properly convicted of campaigning on taxpayers' time, a divided state appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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Read More »Evidence that was obtained illegally does not immediately invalidate a search warrant, if the requesting officer believed he or she was acting lawfully at the time, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
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Read More »A Court of Appeals decision may end up giving courts much-needed guidance for media law cases in Wisconsin, according to an attorney involved with the case.
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Read More »County employees who retire after a health benefit is taken away are not eligible to receive the benefit, even if it was promised when they were hired, according to a Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision issued Tuesday.
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Read More »When there’s no objection to jury instructions, how can they be faulty enough to warrant reversal?
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Read More »At first blush, a recent Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision doesn’t appear to affect family law cases at all.
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