Saturday, July 27, 2019

Redrafting the preliminary-hearing waiver form

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. 

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Just Fly It

Photo by Eric Olson
Celebrate this American holiday by exercising your First Amendment right to free speech -- unless you're studying or working on a college campus, attending an after-hours bar association event, or slaving away in corporate America.

Fortunately, I don't do any of those things.

Happy Fourth of July, everyone!