A Green Bay man has been sentenced to five years in prison for his 18th drunken-driving conviction.
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Read More »A Green Bay man has been sentenced to five years in prison for his 18th drunken-driving conviction.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that a Department of Transportation driving record can serve as sufficient proof of a man's decades-old OWI conviction.
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Read More »Police say a 17-year-old girl from Green Bay has been arrested for drunken driving after a crash on the Main Street Bridge flung her passenger into the river.
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Read More »Repeat drunken drivers would spend more time behind bars under a bill the state Assembly passed overwhelmingly on Tuesday.
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Read More »A split Wisconsin Supreme Court has reversed a decision on a subject-matter-jurisdiction dispute relating to an OWI case from Ozaukee County.
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Read More »A case in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court questions when police officers have reasonable belief to conduct searches without warrants after an arrest.
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Read More »Wisconsin public defenders are on pace to receive pay parity with state prosecutors. The state Senate on Tuesday passed an amended version of Senate Bill 468 to provide a pay-progression plan for assistant state public defenders.
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Read More »Appleton police say they're arrested a man for his 12th drunken driving offense.
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Read More »The last two drunken-driving cases I have taken to trial had the following fact patterns...
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Read More »Some chronic drunken drivers in Wisconsin spend little time behind bars on felony charges due to lenient sentencing.
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Read More »A Stevens Point man has been sentenced to five years in prison for his 10th drunken driving offense.
Tagged with: drunken driving OWI Thomas Eagon
Read More »A judge’s decision to allow a doctor to testify to the intoxication of a drunken-driving defendant can be considered a “harmless error,” the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday, because it was not the evidence that led the jury to find him guilty.
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Read More »The top four candidates for Wisconsin attorney general agreed that heroin is the state's top public safety issue during a debate Saturday at the Wisconsin Professional Police Association annual meeting.
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Read More »The fine for a first drunken-driving offense, including court costs and surcharges, can be as high as $1,000 in places like Winnebago County. But industry experts are questioning whether such heavy fines serve as effective deterrents.
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Read More »A Kenosha attorney who is in prison for drunken driving can no longer practice license in Wisconsin, the state Supreme Court decided Wednesday.
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Read More »Mothers Against Drunk Driving is giving Wisconsin a failing grade, saying the state doesn't do enough to deter people from driving drunk or to clamp down on people with repeated offenses.
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Read More »A Madison man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for driving drunk and slamming into another vehicle, killing a passenger and injuring the driver.
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Read More »A former Wisconsin Democratic Party spokesman has been convicted of first-offense drunken driving, even though it was his third conviction for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
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Read More »In Wisconsin’s war against drunk driving, Sen. Alberta Darling has been a consistent crusader.
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Read More »A four-time OWI defendant will get another chance to prove he did not knowingly waive his right to legal counsel in two earlier OWI cases, according to a recently issued Wisconsin appellate court opinion.
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Read More »A Plainfield man charged with his 11th offense of driving while intoxicated has pleaded not guilty by reason of mental defect.
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Read More »2011AP2948-CR State v. Wetzel
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Read More »2012AP1266 Village of Little Chute v. Bunnell
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Read More »2012AP64-CR State v. Schmidt
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Read More »2012AP630 City of West Allis v. Kapke
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Read More »2012AP1189 Winnebago County v. Christenson
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Read More »2012AP1282 State v. Quiles
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Read More »2011AP2958-CR State v. Reeverts
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Read More »2012AP571-CR State v. Christofferson
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