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.

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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

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 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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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 21, 2021

He further pledged that he will not use such laws against parents objecting to critical race theory or other issues at these meetings. Indeed, I raised the same concerns when the Justice Department took over rioting cases in Wisconsin, Washington, and other states. It has an impact on how you act.

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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

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

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

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

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.). ” Even law professors seemed to call for mob action. Georgetown law professor Josh Chafetz declared that “ when the mob is right, some (but not all!)

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The case also presents the question whether a public-accommodation law that authorizes secular but not religious exemptions is generally applicable under Employment Division v. A number of challenges to such laws have reached the court over the years, but National Pork Producers Council v. Wisconsin v.

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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. The jury followed the law without any political or personal inducement.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

There also were glaring prosecution blunders, including a potentially case-ending violation of a court order — and long-standing constitutional law — in using Rittenhouse’s post-arrest silence against him. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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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. But this has been a Republican fixation to no avail. They have got no political gain out of this. Let’s start with Hunter Biden.’

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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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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on the aftermath of Rittenhouse verdict and how the jury functioned as design to rule on the evidence and the law rather than public passions. Many have called for self-defense laws to be curtailed in light of the verdict. However, this jury was tasked with applying these facts to existing law.

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