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The Importance of Understanding
The local WGBA news team aired a propaganda segment claiming a police polygraph examiner gets valid results. But, since the examiner administers and evaluates the examination, the result will be skewed. Not to mention, that police sometimes judge a person guilty prematurely and then institutional bias will kick in.
Read MoreIn 1993, Vilas County Prosecutor Steve Lucareli came up with a novel way to win as case. He filed felony charges against the defense attorney just before the beginning of a trial and then wanted the defense attorney removed so Lucareli could get a delay.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court condoned this.
Read MoreThe written confession of Brendan Dassey resulting from the Mishicot High School interrogation was obtained with the prompts and additions from the interrogators. Due to the poor quality of their recording technique, Special Prosecutor Ken Kratz instructed them to conduct a second session on 27 February, 2006.
Read MoreCalumet County Investigator Mark Wiegert and Wisconsin Special Agent Tom Fassbender claimed that the 27 February session at Mishicot High School was an interview. It was a full blown interrogation with the intrepid two stating from the onset that the sixteen‑year‑old special education student Brendan Dassey saw a body in the bonfire of 31 October, 2005. They would accept nothing that was contrary. Dassey was not safe in his school. No school official was present.
Read MoreThose in charge of police agencies need to stress the need to be open‑minded and thorough. It is the responsibility of the management to ensure correct results rather than assumptions based upon desired outcomes. Good evidence will speak for itself. Bad evidence will lose cases or even worse, convict the innocent.
Read MoreSheboygan County Circuit Court Judge Timothy Van Akkeren is no judge James Horton.
Read MoreA near disaster occurred in Minneapolis in December, 2006. A SWAT team came close to shooting members of a family when the broke into the wrong house. The authorities blame everyone but the police for this.
Read MoreYet, another case to demonstrate that the accused should not accept plea deals.
Read MoreThe Green Bay Nativity controversy demonstrates that Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt is ignorant and cannot be trusted to keep his word.
Read MoreGreen Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt shows his true colors. First, he says that anyone who wants a City Hall religious display is welcome to provide one. Then when other displays arrive, he bans them. Only the Mayor approved manger scene remains.
Read MoreIn Green Bay Wisconsin, the city council president sneaks a religious display under the cover of darkness demonstrating the deception of the pious.
Read MoreThe United States wants to tell Turkey not to defend its borders. But, is it OK for Israel to bomb Beirut? And is it OK for the United States to plunge the people of Iraq into carnage to defend our borders? Something does not balance.
Read MoreFinally, I was forced to look at the issue of borderless printing on custom paper sheet sizes.
Read MoreWhen I look at our criminal justice system, I am convinced this is Cardassia, not the United States.
Read MoreHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats demonstrate their ignorance, denial, and bigotry.
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