I currently have an article under submission to the law
journals that is titled Improvident Prosecutions. It exposes the various preliminary hearing
scams perpetrated by Wisconsin ’s
prosecutors and judges, and gives interested legislators a roadmap to correct
these prosecutorial and judicial abuses.
Once the article is accepted for publication, I’ll post it to SSRN and
my website and will notify The Dog’s readers via a new blog post. But until then, I thought I’d take a shot at redrafting
the state’s (or at least Kenosha County ’s)
preliminary-hearing waiver form. Given
the current prosecutorial practice of using a reader-witness, explained below,
the old waiver form is no longer accurate and poses problems for defense
lawyers whose clients are thinking about waiving the preliminary hearing.