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What’s Happened So Far With the Waukesha Parade Trial?
Defendant Darrell Brooks Jr. has offered sovereign citizen defense, dropped his public defenders and been removed from court room.
Oct 5th, 2022 by Evan Casey
A Map of County’s Overdose Deaths
78% of deaths last year involved fentanyl. But use of new drug, Xylazine, rising.
Aug 24th, 2022 by Isiah Holmes
How Milwaukee Police Do Cell Phone Surveillance
A log of 227 investigations reveals how MPD phone surveillance works.
Jul 19th, 2022 by Isiah Holmes
How Wisconsin’s Parole System Works
Critiques of an ‘ancient’ system shake up the parole commission and the governor’s race.
Jun 20th, 2022 by Isiah Holmes
Lawyers Caution Against Changing Bail System
Waukesha parade killings spark calls for higher bail, more punitive pretrial detention.
Dec 5th, 2021 by Isiah Holmes
Tosa Police ‘Protestor List’ Includes Reporter
WE reporter Isiah Holmes on list, along with state Reps. David Bowen, Jonathan Brostoff and attorneys Kimberley Motley, Deja Vishny.
Jul 6th, 2021 by Isiah Holmes
Sickle Cell Excuses Killings By Police?
3 of 47 such deaths nationally were in Milwaukee, but county medical examiner defends his decisions.
May 17th, 2021 by Bruce Murphy
Tosa Police Had Many ‘High Value Targets’
Including Mayor Dennis McBride, Rep. David Bowen, protest leaders, attorneys.
May 12th, 2021 by Isiah Holmes
Tosa Mayor Named As ‘Target’ By Police
Such action will 'drive a wedge" between police and people they serve, McBride warns.
Jan 13th, 2021 by Isiah Holmes
How Independent Are Police Shooting Investigations?
Emails raise questions about the rotating team of investigators known as the Milwaukee Area Investigative Team.
Dec 5th, 2020 by Isiah Holmes
Tosa Police Use High Fees to Combat Open Records?
Email outlining policy 'a shocking admission of bad faith,' expert says.
Nov 24th, 2020 by Isiah Holmes
Mensah Settlement Leaves Lawyers, Officials Squabbling
Attorneys arguing with city; police chief at odds with Common Council.
Nov 23rd, 2020 by Isiah Holmes
Activist Arrested in Kenosha Joins Curfew Lawsuit
Lawsuit argues that curfew was only enforced against those protesting police brutality.
Sep 3rd, 2020 by Rob Mentzer
Tosa Police Issue Gets More Heated
Other suburb’s police massing against protesters. Sensenbrenner, police chief, talk radio condemn protests.
Aug 17th, 2020 by Isiah Holmes
Schwantes for Judge campaign announces first 100 endorsements from community leaders
Endorsers including Rep. Evan Goyke, six judges and more than 80 local attorneys
Aug 6th, 2020 by Travis Schwantes
Judge Paul Rifelj gains endorsement of more Milwaukee judges and dozens of attorneys
As the first public defender appointed to the bench in many years, Rifelj is earning support from across the legal and political spectrum.
Dec 29th, 2015 by Paul Rifelj
The Jewish Judge Who’s a Quarter Irish
Governor James E. Doyle told about 75 people at Mo’s Irish Pub last Friday that “there are a number of good things I can do as governor. … I get to appoint people to the bench. As a lawyer and the son of a judge, I take this seriously.” What does the governor look for in a judge? – He’s appointed about 6 of them so far –“I get a list of very – incredibly good people. I could pick them out of a hat. But I look for intelligence, fairness, and understanding of people. Also, frankly, some much needed diversity.” Doyle got diversity all right when he appointed Glenn Yamahiro as a Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge last year. Yamahiro, a former public defender, lawyer in private practice, and teacher of disturbed students, is also the first Asian-American to sit on the bar in Wisconsin. He is that, and more, the crowd, gathered for a fundraiser, was to learn. Yamahiro told the crowd that he was proud to be “the first [judicial] appointee by a democratic governor in almost 20 years.” Yamahiro is running for a full term against former Judge Robert Crawford, whose antics on the bench in the past cost him his seat to Judge Louis Butler, who was present, as were such other judges as Jean DiMotto, Ted Wedemeyer, Tom Donegan, Paul Wall and judge wannabees like Audrey Skwierawski. Attorneys including the venerable Dominic Frinzi and Mark Thomsen popped in for the gig. Yamahiro has already proven himself to be one of the more amusing speakers on the bench, and among politicians generally. “I told the governor at the time of my appointment that any opponent I would get would be buried at the election. “Now we have to come through on that promise,” he said, to the general assent of the assembled, not eager for a return of the goofy Crawford. Yamahiro rubbed it in: “If it was an election of the informed, we wouldn’t need this gathering,” he said. Do not think that Yamahiro tried to coast by solely on the merits of his wit and the novelty of his Asian background. “I am the first Asian-American judge in Wisconsin, but I did have a grandma in Iowa, born about 100 years ago. Her name was Morrissey. So I have 25 percent Irish blood, and I am happy to be in Mo’s Irish Pub with the Guinness flowing.” The crowd really liked this intercultural news, and I talked to Deja Vishny, a public defender with a really cool name – and yet another story. “I’m Glenn’s wife,” she said. The couple has one child, who attends a Jewish elementary school. “I’m Jewish,” she explained. “So is Glenn,” she added. Observations From the Governor On the Legislature You get the feeling from Governor Jim Doyle that the legislature is acting like a pesky housefly that he has to keep swatting at. The recent meetings of the august representatives of the people were characterized in this […]
Mar 8th, 2004 by Michael Horne
