Charges have been filed against nine people so far as a result of the Wisconsin Department of Justice's work to test thousands of kits containing evidence collected from sexual assault victims.
Read More »Wisconsin sexual assault kit tests lead to 23 DNA hits
The state Department of Justice's efforts to analyze thousands of untested sexual assault kits generated nearly 20 DNA hits during the last half of 2017.
Read More »$2.5M settlement approved in Milwaukee officer’s rape case
A woman who was raped by a Milwaukee police officer responding to her 911 call in 2010 will receive $2.5 million to settle her lawsuit against the city.
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Read More »View from around the state: Rape victims deserve fast work on tests
"We owe it to those who had the courage to report a sexual assault." That's what Attorney General Brad Schimel said last year when he announced the state was offered $2 million to test backlogged rape kits.
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Read More »Jails, prisons still trying to meet federal anti-rape rules
Miguel Moll knew the risk of rape when he was thrown into jail in 1989 after joyriding in a stolen car.
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Read More »Judge to Ex-Packer: Can’t ignore the damage you inflicted
Former NFL star Darren Sharper was sentenced Thursday to more than 18 years in prison for drugging women in order to rape them — double the sentence recommended by prosecutors.
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Read More »Wisconsin Supreme Court reverses rape ruling (UPDATE)
Evidence of a prior consensual sexual relationship between a Milwaukee man and a woman who accused him of rape was properly excluded from his trial, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
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Read More »Man wrongfully convicted in ’91 rape now homeless
A man who was freed this month from prison, where he was serving a 102-year sentence for a 1991 rape he didn't commit, is living in a Madison homeless shelter and doesn't have enough money to buy the medication he takes for several serious health problems.
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Read More »Judge overturns Wisconsin man’s rape conviction
A Wisconsin man who has spent two decades in prison for rape has had his conviction overturned.
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Read More »Wis. sentencing expert: Iowa’s parole system is flawed
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad's spokesman defended the state's release of a convict charged with killing his mother and kidnapping a woman 36 hours after leaving prison, saying state officials did everything in their power to protect the public.
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Read More »Barron County DA disputes lawmaker’s rape comment (UPDATE)
A Wisconsin district attorney who prosecuted a sexual assault case involving two high school students has joined a wave of critics of a Republican lawmaker and his comments about rape.
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Read More »State’s high court disciplines 2 Ill. attorneys
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday reciprocally disciplined two Illinois attorneys for their 2006 criminal convictions in Green Lake County.
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Read More »Innocence Project: DNA shows wrongful conviction (UPDATE)
By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) – Innocence Project attorneys cited DNA and other evidence Monday in asking a judge to free a man who has spent nearly three decades in prison for breaking into a St. Louis ...
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Read More »Man sentenced for raping SD teenager
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A former Hardee’s restaurant trainer from Wisconsin accused of having sex with a 15-year-old trainee in Sioux Falls has been sentenced to five years in prison. KELO television reports that 37-year-old Shannon Manninger was sentenced ...
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Read More »Wisconsin court orders review of gang rape damages (UPDATE)
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state appeals court on Tuesday ordered a lower court judge to reconsider awarding $1.5 million in damages to a woman who sued three Illinois men for allegedly gang-raping her in ...
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Read More »Wis. Man pleads guilty to raping SD teenager
A former Hardee's restaurant trainer from Wisconsin who was accused of having sex with a 15-year-old trainee in Sioux Falls has pleaded guilty to rape.
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Read More »Wis. man pleads not guilty to raping SD teenager
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Wisconsin man who authorities say was in Sioux Falls training employees for a new Hardee’s restaurant has pleaded not guilty to raping a teenage trainee. Thirty-six-year-old Shannon Manninger is charged with two counts of ...
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