LawTechnologyToday
APRIL 16, 2021
AI in law is a relatively new and continually expanding concept. Criminal Law. AI in criminal law may be a more widespread phenomenon than you realize. Wisconsin, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin approved the use of a risk assessment algorithm that determined the defendant was too high-risk to receive parole.
The Crime Report
DECEMBER 2, 2021
The pursuit of profit is “inextricably intertwined” with America’s system of carceral labor, and criminal punishment, according to a forthcoming paper in the Wisconsin Law Review. In the 19th century, Appleman wrote, American cities’ economies were tied to tlabor contracts secured through private businesses and penal servitude.
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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. This is a case where criminal prosecution would be the only effective deterrent.
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. An opening statement is like an oral contract with the jury. The case against Kyle Rittenhouse just got a little smaller. Jurors expect lawyers to make good on what they were promised.
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.” A [resident] cannot enter into contracts.” ” They are now to be called “residents” or “those who are in our care.”
JonathanTurley
APRIL 12, 2022
It was later discovered that Special Agent Jayson Chambers, who managed the FBI informant, was running a private investigative firm and allegedly leveraging his work for private contracts. He was arrested for fraud in Wisconsin. Then there was the key informant, Stephen Robeson. It then went from odd to unbelievable.
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