The state Supreme Court has dismissed allegations of ethics violations against former Kenosha County District Attorney Robert Zapf.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to hand down a decision Wednesday in a lawyer-discipline case accusing a former Kenosha County district attorney of failing to disclose a police officer’s planting of evidence in a murder investigation.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments on Monday in three cases, including one challenging the state’s Board of Bar Examiners’ rejection of a man’s application seeking admission to practice in Wisconsin.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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