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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Courts - "Special prosecutor named to investigate the case of two Wisconsin Supreme Court justices fighting in chambers"

Reid J. Epstein has the story today in Politco. Some quotes:

[Sauk County District Attorney Patricia Barrett, who is not seeking re-election next year] was named as special prosecutor because officials in Dane County, which includes Madison, the state capital, determined they could not look into the incident in an impartial way.

The Dane County sheriff was a campaign contributor and appeared in TV ads for the state high court’s chief justice, about whom Prosser and Bradley [Justices David Prosser and Ann Walsh Bradley] were arguing, and the Dane County district attorney, a Democrat, brought the case that was at the center of their disagreement. Sauk County borders Dane County to its northwest.

“Politics should play no role in what we do,” Barrett told the Journal Sentinel.

Here is the expanded story, with photos, from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 16, 2011 09:11 AM
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