Department of Corrections and county sheriffs to provide every inmate being held in a state correctional institution or county house of correction with three hours per week of outdoor time, unless the inmate is being held in the Milwaukee secure detention facility, in which case the three-hour per week requirement does not apply until the inmate's 91st day of holding at that institution.
Deputy pursued suspected drunken driver to home and entered garage allegedly in hot pursuit. In encounter at door from garage to home, deputy fired Taser to prevent driver’s escape into his home. Driver struck in left eye with Taser dart and subsequently lost all vision in left eye.
My client’s car was stopped without p.c. of wrongdoing and he was eventually tasered three times. He received stitches in his lip that had to be repaired 2 additional times.
The City of Madison and its insurance company have agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle the civil rights claims of the family of Paul Heenan, the thirty-year old musician and recording engineer who was shot and killed by Madison Police Officer Stephen Heimsness, on November 9, 2012, after he mistook a neighbor’s Baldwin Street house for the one he had moved into a week earlier, prompting a 911 call.
26 y.o. suicidal woman shot to death by officers while holding gun to her own head; officers said she refused to drop gun, and angrily took four quick steps toward them while pointing gun at her own head; survived by father. Verdict includes $1.5M punitives each against two shooting officers.
AB 834 / SB 874 would prohibit local police agencies and elected officials from making any local democratic decisions that would limit the inherently dangerous tactic of executing a warrant without knocking and announcing first (also known as a no-knock warrant).