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Attorney note from a case disposition involving a client's successful completion of drug treatment court.

Wisconsin locks up too many people when better options exist. The untold human cost and fiscal expense of this will eat at the civic soul and vitality of our community if left unchecked.

How adverse childhood experiences and trauma impact decision-making in criminal case sentencing.

Craig is presenting today at the 2019 State Public Defender's Office Trial Skills on developing a defense theory of the case, and brainstorming.

With the Democratic National Convention on its way to Milwaukee in 2020, our firm will compare and discuss the criminal justice platforms and positions of the Democratic and Republican parties and the various candidates during the 2020 campaign season. The first of an occasional series.

When police get a search warrant for a property, they have the ability to request what's called a "no-knock" warrant. A no-knock warrant authorizes police to enter that property to search it without having to announce themselves first, which means that they enter by using force.

Craig Mastantuono will present at Marquette University Law School on updates in the law from the current term related to criminal procedure issues.

The road to release from Wisconsin prison for Baron Walker was an 18-month legal effort. Mr. Walker is one of 3,000 parole-eligible people who face a system that is not inclined to release them. How did Mr. Walker make it out, and what is the structure of our laws governing incarceration in Wisconsin?

Craig Mastantuono and Rebecca Coffee are co-presenting at a National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) training seminar on defending sexual assault allegations.

Printed in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 11/1/18, Attorney Craig Mastantuono's opinion piece on the state of our prisons after twenty years of Tough on Crime laws. Baron Walker did his time and reformed. Wisconsin kept him locked up anyway. Inmates like Baron, subject to parole reviews, are not being released, and Wisconsin's so-called Truth in Sentencing Law is even worse, resulting in racially disparate and mass incarceration in the Dairy State.