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In this article, the Wisconsin State Bar discusses a potential new law in Wisconsin that would allow police to take DNA from a person who has been arrested for certain offenses.

Last month, there was a rally in Waukesha County supporting gun rights in Wisconsin; the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covered the event in an article here.

Craig Mastantuono spoke earlier this month at the Annual Conference of the Wisconsin State Public Defender on Wisconsin’s Castle Doctrine law

Mastantuono Law Office released the press statement below today, following a favorable decision in the Wisconsin Court of Appeals affirming the Burnett County Circuit Court’s dismissal of a homicide prosecution against one of our clients.

Spoiler alert: If you’re a child planning on attending the Milwaukee Society of the Polish Center’s Christmas party on Dec. 13, or if you are or will be a patient (of any age) at St. Francis Hospital in Milwaukee on Dec. 2, stop reading right now!

Attorneys Craig Mastantuono and Rebecca Coffee discuss the changing State and Federal Constitutional interplay of criminal defendants’ right to counsel during formal criminal proceedings.

When a person is convicted of a felony in Wisconsin, a DNA sample is taken and stored in a state database.

For convictions in State Circuit Court, Wisconsin law allows for expungement of a person’s criminal conviction in limited instances.

A state appeals court has clarified the standard required before a person committed as sexually violent can receive a new discharge hearing in circuit court.

So what do you do when your client is guilty?