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.
Attorney Rebecca Coffee Presented at the Wisconsin Public Defender's 2018 Conference
We talk a lot these days about mass incarceration, but what does it look like? What goes on inside prison walls? What is life behind bars really like for incarcerated people and those around them? Nigel Poor’s San Quentin Project: the Men of San Quentin State Prison comes to the Milwaukee Art Museum, which opens to the public on October 18th, 2018, and runs through March 10, 2019. Mastantuono & Coffee is proud to be the education sponsor of this important exhibition.
Window tint is one of the most common reasons for police to stop a car as a pretext to look for evidence of other more serious offenses, especially in urban areas. Find out what the law allows, and if you could be next.
Character Letters and Letters of Support always help the judge get a better idea of who are client is on the good days.
