MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorneys for a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" have petitioned for his release now that a federal appeals court has ruled that his confession was coerced. Lawyers for Brendan Dassey filed papers Friday saying Thursday's decision by a three-judge appeals panel leaves no reason for further delays. The court gave Wisconsin prosecutors until 5 p.m. Monday to file a response. […]
The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office is accepting applications for the 3rd annual Sheriff’s Citizen Academy. This is an opportunity for Dodge County residents to receive hands on insight into the daily operations of the sheriff’s office. Some of the course topics covered include owi and crash investigations, firearms and active shooter response and criminal investigation and evidence handling. The academy begins in September and lasts until December. The application deadline […]
A Fond du Lac lawmaker says a federal appellate panel ruling this week is not good news for the future of a Highway 23 expansion project between Fond du Lac and Plymouth. The three judge panel dismissed state officials’ efforts to obtain federal funding for the project. State representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt says one judge seemed to indicate that the state could proceed on its own, without federal funding, contrary to […]
The director of the Fair Elections Project says he is pleased the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed a lawsuit challenging redistricting maps drawn by Republicans. Sachin Chheda told WFDL news Democrats proved in court their rights were violated. The Supreme Court is expected to hear the case in October and Chheda says if it’s a favorable ruling there would be plenty of time of redraw the maps before the 2018 […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has voted to continue keeping its deliberations behind closed doors. The vote this week came amid hostility that has been marking the court in recent years. The state Supreme Court has always conducted its arguments on cases in public and its deliberations about them behind closed doors. The court voted five years ago to hold public deliberations about proposed changes to the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The security director at Wisconsin's juvenile prisons says he wants to reduce the amount of time that youth inmates are put into solitary confinement. But Brian Gustke testified in federal court Thursday that there are impediments to doing that. He says those include high turnover and vacancies in prison staff that leads to forced overtime, not knowing schedules and "confusion on everyone's part, staff as well […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Lawyers for Brendan Dassey, one of two men featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer," say they'll take immediate steps to secure his release now that a federal appeals court says his confession was improperly obtained. Laura Nirider of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth at Northwestern University says they're still considering those steps but want to send Dassey home to his mother as soon […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A three-judge federal appeals panel has affirmed that a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" was coerced into confessing and should be released from prison. Brendan Dassey was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 in photographer Teresa Halbach's death two years earlier. Dassey told detectives he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and kill Halbach in the Avery family's Manitowoc County salvage […]
A man has been arrested in Fond du Lac County for his 10th OWI offense. Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s captain Ryan Waldschmidt says the 62 year old man was pulled over on southbound Highway 26 in the village of Rosendale Tuesday night. Waldschmidt says a female passenger in the vehicle dialed 911 to alert authorities. "Its concerning that she chose to get into the vehicle knowing the condition he […]