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Court Dismisses Sixth Count Against Rittenhouse

JonathanTurley

I recently wrote a column stating that the sixth count appeared to be based on a factually and legally inapplicable provision of Wisconsin law. This is the loss of the least serious charge, but prosecutors lost more than just a misdemeanor conviction in the decision. An opening statement is like an oral contract with the jury.

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The Collaborative Courtroom: A Proposal

The Crime Report

For example, Tom Reed, the veteran head of the Wisconsin State Public Defender’s Milwaukee office, and John Chisholm, Milwaukee’s elected prosecutor, joined to write a comprehensive manifesto on the future of criminal justice that would have been absolutely impossible without their deep levels of adversarial experience.

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