Should Wisconsin prosecutors be held to a higher ethical standard than their constitutional obligation to disclose evidence to criminal defendants?

Tagged with: Gregg Herman office of lawyer regulation OLR Richard Cayo Robert Zapf Sharon Riek Stacie Rosenzweig Wisconsin Supreme Court

A referee is recommending that the Wisconsin Supreme Court suspend a former Kenosha County District Attorney’s license for at least a year and permanently ban him from working as a prosecutor.

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Recently retired Kenosha County District Attorney Robert Zapf is facing with a 90-day license suspension over charges that he failed to disclose information in two homicide cases.

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Homicide charges against a Kenosha man accused of mutilating his wife with a knife and shooting her have been dismissed because the defendant has died in a mental health treatment facility.

Tagged with: Gary Sabol homicide Robert Zapf

A man charged with killing his 11-month-old daughter and trying to kill the child's mother is on trial in Kenosha County.

Tagged with: Robert Zapf

A judge says jurors in the Wisconsin case of a former police officer accused of killing an Oregon woman whose body was found in a suitcase should not be told about a Minnesota woman he's also suspected of killing.

Tagged with: Bruce Schroeder Robert Zapf Steven Zelich

The trial for a former police officer accused of killing a woman whose body was found in a suitcase along a rural Wisconsin highway won't include information on another woman he's suspected of killing, a judge ruled Friday.

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There is nothing that harms the integrity of the criminal justice system more than a rogue officer planting evidence.

Tagged with: Anthony Cotton On the Defensive Robert Zapf

Defense attorneys are crying foul after an ex-Kenosha police officer admitted he planted evidence in a homicide investigation.

Tagged with: Robert Zapf

A former Wisconsin police officer killed a 19-year-old college student from Oregon during a choking game that went too far, hid her body in a suitcase she brought to their sex date and then kept her body in his refrigerator for months, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday.

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A former police officer suspected in the deaths of two women whose bodies were found stuffed in suitcases along a rural Wisconsin road returns to court to face more charges.

Tagged with: Jonathan Smith Robert Zapf Steven Zelich

A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for a drug-related killing in Kenosha.

Tagged with: Robert Zapf