The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Advocates for women in Wisconsin describe the family court system as unprepared for the complexities presented by domestic violence, often giving little consideration to the risk of harm to women and children and compounding the trauma they face.
The Crime Report
APRIL 21, 2022
Advocates are pushing states to create updated felony standards, arguing that outdated laws, which vary wildly from state to state, are unfairly making felons out of people who committed minor crimes such as stealing a pair of shoes, reports Axios.
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The Crime Report
JANUARY 11, 2022
The plea deal was weighed as appropriate to dismiss the felony charges, given Black’s willingness to cooperate in the case.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 24, 2021
Wisconsin is one of a half-dozen states considering umpire and referee protection legislation this year. Most of the bills under consideration would increase existing penalties or up the crime from a misdemeanor to a felony.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 25, 2022
There is a controversy at the University of Wisconsin this week after the Dane County District Attorney’s Office in Wisconsin filed misdemeanor battery charges against three teens suspected in the brutal assault of a UW-Madison Chinese PhD student. The reason, however, appears a key distinction in the Wisconsin criminal code.
The Crime Report
JULY 16, 2021
In Wisconsin, for example, voting rights groups found that while just over half the sheriffs said they had policies in place to encourage jail-based voting, many inmates encountered multiple hurdles including the states voter ID laws. Wisconsin does not permit a jail ID as an acceptable form of identification to vote.
The Crime Report
JANUARY 25, 2022
Arizona also repealed a law authorizing suspension of driver’s licenses for failure to pay and authorized its courts to redesignate some felonies as misdemeanors, the report details. . The CCRC researchers note that these states have been “equally unproductive in 2020 and 2019” as well.
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