KATHERINE M. HALOPKA-IVERY and LINDA M. HALOPKA-IVERY v. SCOTT WALKER et al
Apr 16, 2014
OUTCOME: Wisconsin Supreme Court decided not to hear case.
Clients, Katherine Halopka-Ivery and Linda Halopka-Ivery, brought this action 42 U.S.C. § 1983; U.S. Constitution Amend (s). I and XIV, Sec. 1 to challenge the validity under the United States Constit...ution and federal law of Wisconsin Constitution Article XIII, § 13 challenging Wisconsin's same sex marriage ban. The brief for this case is available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/218730633/Wisconsin-Supreme-Court-Petition-for-Declaratory-Injunctive-Relief
Criminal defense
State v. Universal Allah
Nov 01, 2013
OUTCOME: Case currently on appeal
Yep right in between those photos of Jennifer Lawrence in Vanity Fair is an article about my client, Universal Allah, and his role in the stealing of the Lipinski Stradivarius. The reporter seems to t...reat the human aspects -and Milwaukee - as a joke or at least rather trivial. http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2014/11/stradivarius-violin-crime-milwaukee.print
According to the criminal complaint in this case, Universal K. Allah’s role in this robbery was limited to purchasing in the summer of 2013 a taser used to attack and rob Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Mr. Frank Almond. Issue is appropriate sentence for a first time offender who does not possess those characteristics of those defendants who are sent to prison.
Criminal defense
State v. Tracy Edwards
Jan 01, 2012
OUTCOME: Sentenced to short prison term and released
A man who narrowly escaped death at the hands of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and led police to Dahmer's grisly house of horrors two decades ago was arrested and charged with a homicide of his own. "It...'s like Humpty Dumpty," said Edwards' defense attorney Paul Ksicinski, speaking of Edwards' life after the Dahmer trial. "It's like he was never able to put the pieces back together again." Edwards was arrested on July 26, 2011 and accused of throwing a man to his death off a Milwaukee bridge. Assistant District Attorney Mark Williams told Judge Rebecca Dallet that Carr had admitted his role in the death but that he would have had problems establishing that Edwards was involved in helping to lift Jordan off the bridge. That's why they went with the reduced charge, which he can prove because Edwards admitted he initially lied to police in an effort to protect Carr. Ksicinski said he likely has post-traumatic stress disorder because of his experience with Dahmer. He said Edwards essentially "shorted out" that day on the bridge.
Criminal defense
State v. Michael Henderson and Olando Maclin
Jan 01, 2010
OUTCOME: charges reduced
Michael Henderson, 41, and Olando Maclin, 53, contend that Wisconsin's constitution, which prohibits felons from voting until their sentences - including probation and payment of fines and costs - have... been completed, is itself unconstitutional because the effect of the ban is to disproportionately keep African-Americans like themselves from the polls. I filed a motion to dismiss the charges, and backed it up with a 58-page, single-spaced legal brief that cites hundreds of historical, legal and statistical sources. It recounts the adoption of both the U.S. and Wisconsin constitutions, the 14th, 15th and 24th amendments and the Voting Rights Act. It explains how blacks are disproportionately charged, convicted and imprisoned in America, and argues that felon disenfranchisement, therefore, should be overturned. I noted, for instance, that there are more than 5 million, up from 1.6 million just 25 years ago, on probation or parole in the United States. Combine that with the prison and jail population and it means 1 in every 31 adults, or 3.2%, is under some form of correctional control. For blacks, it's 1 in 11, and even higher in some central city neighborhoods. Link to my brief at http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/105317088.html
