JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

He has a lengthy criminal history in Wisconsin, including charges for battery, disorderly conduct and driving while intoxicated this year. That means that all of the alleged victims had criminal records.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While none of the cases are considered “blockbusters,” the Court considered key issues related to employment, securities, healthcare, and white-collar criminal law. Below is a brief summary of the questions before the Court: Wisconsin Bell, Inc. United States, ex rel.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 31, 2020

We have been discussing curious Covid-related offenses this year, but a Wisconsin controversy raises a particularly challenging such question. Advocate Aurora Health has admitted that an employee intentionally removed 57 vials of the Moderna vaccine from refrigeration.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I recently wrote a column stating that the sixth count appeared to be based on a factually and legally inapplicable provision of Wisconsin law. The case against Kyle Rittenhouse just got a little smaller. I could not understand how the judge could allow the count to go to jury.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Indeed, I raised the same concerns when the Justice Department took over rioting cases in Wisconsin, Washington, and other states. Moreover, some threats using interstate communications or interstate conduct can satisfy federal jurisdiction, but such local threats are rarely matters of federal enforcement.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Gaige Grosskreutz who was shot in the arm by Kyle Rittenhouse during the Kenosha riots in 2020 is now suing him as well as Wisconsin police and officials. YouTube screengrab Just when you thought that the Kyle Rittenhouse case was over. it is back.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Moreover, while some have called for reducing self-defense protections, the jury applied the law on the books. It is not allowed to simply ignore the law to seek its own criminal justice rules. The Rittenhouse jury faithfully applied the Wisconsin law and came to a well-founded verdict of acquittal.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 9, 2022

Dominick David Black, the friend who bought Kyle Rittenhouse an assault-style rifle when he was only 17, has been facing two felonies in Wisconsin. The hefty charges were clearly meant to force his cooperation in the prosecution of his friend.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In this case, the legal question under Wisconsin law was neither complex nor confusing: “A person is privileged to threaten or intentionally use force against another for the purpose of preventing or terminating what the person reasonably believes to be an unlawful interference with his or her person by such other person.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Oklahoma that Congress had not clearly disestablished a Creek Nation reservation covering much of eastern Oklahoma, and thus the area remained Native American territory for the purposes of a federal criminal law, eliminating the state’s ability to prosecute crimes there. Wisconsin v. Wisconsin v. relisted after the Jan.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 19, 2021

According to the Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett has ordered staff to stop calling incarcerated persons “inmates” or “prisoners.” ” They are now to be called “residents” or “those who are in our care.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In coverage of this trial, one would think that there were parallel trials occurring in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Any first-year law student knows that you cannot comment on the silence of a Mirandized defendant after an arrest under the Fifth Amendment – let alone ignore a court order. Wisconsin has a strong self-defense standard.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

I recently wrote a column stating that the sixth count appeared to be based on a factually and legally inapplicable provision of Wisconsin law. “The Wisconsin Department of Justice honors concealed carry permits issued in Illinois. Yesterday, Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed the sixth charge in the case.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Under Wisconsin law, if someone provokes a confrontation, they are then required to exhaust all other options — such as retreating — before using deadly force in self-defense. Prosecutors did win a fight for a “provocation instruction.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2022

This incident came after a judge was recently zip tied and killed in his Wisconsin home ; a former defendant in the judge’s courtroom has been charged.). Roske, according to news reports, was angry that the Supreme Court may overturn Roe v. Wade this month. He faces charges of attempting to kidnap, murder or threaten a federal judge.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 12, 2022

He was arrested for fraud in Wisconsin. An informant known as “Big Dan” was paid over $50,000 to get the conspiracy going, including paying for the defendants to travel to Wisconsin to “train.” Then there was the key informant, Stephen Robeson. It then went from odd to unbelievable.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 20, 2022

An informant known as “Big Dan” was paid over $50,000 to get the conspiracy going, including paying for the defendants to travel to Wisconsin to “train.”. The FBI, therefore, decided to take control and get them serious about some major crimes. Special Agent Jayson Chambers pushed Big Dan to get the men to take violent acts against Whitmer.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, a jury of 11 white jurors and one racial minority rejected wildly inaccurate accounts and voted for acquittal – a result viewed by many legal experts as correct under Wisconsin law.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 21, 2022

I looked up Ron Johnson, the senator from Wisconsin, a couple of months ago, was asked about mass shootings … He said, ‘Before we pass anything new on guns, let’s enforce the law we already have. He struggled with addiction, and, you know, nobody has charged him with anything. But this has been a Republican fixation to no avail.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 22, 2023

” It was like a Joseph Welch moment in another hearing with then-Wisconsin Republican Sen. Joe McCarthy. After McCarthy criticized a young lawyer in the office of Welch, who was chief counsel for the Army, Welch famously responded, “Until this moment, senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.”

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