Anna M. Wilhelmi Law Offices, P.C.

06/24/2021

Eva-Genevieve Scarborough is speaking tonight! Come join us to learn about this important topic!

Visitors pick up some of the flags available inside the Egyptian Theatre in June 2021 at the Pride event in downtown DeKalb. The event was hosted by the Egyptian Theatre, Safe Passage, DeKalb Public Library, Prism NIU, Queer-Oriented Rural Resource Network and the NIU Center for the Study of Women G...

06/19/2021

This pride month we believe it is important to help educate ourselves and our community so we can be the most inclusive organization possible.

Please join us this Thursday, June 24 at 6:30 pm for a training and discussion on Gender and Pronouns presented by Eva-Genevieve Scarborough.

This Zoom event is open to anyone in the community looking to learn, please preregister using the below link and if you have any questions you can reach us at [email protected]

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvf-6vrD0tGtQKEZmdr3GEWQZuaiKiIaiq

06/11/2021

Giving back to our community is important to us so we have chosen several ways to get involved this month. In order to cover the costs, we are raising money specifically for our service projects. If you would like to give please use the link below or send a check to us at PO Box 785, DeKalb, IL 60115 with a note stating it is for service projects.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/junteenthpride

Our first project this month is sponsoring and volunteering at a kid's painting tent at the Juneteenth event in DeKalb on June 19th.

We are also donating children's books on Juneteenth and Pride to local libraries. If you would like to volunteer to deliver the books to your local library please email [email protected]

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/junteenthpride

04/21/2021

The three guilty verdicts of Derek Chauvin for the outrageous blatant murder of George Floyd is welcoming news. Although the evidence was overwhelming that he was guilty of this heinous murder, my life and legal experience has shown me time and again that we cannot depend upon our current legal system as we know it to bring justice for black victims of crime in this country. So I was surprised and pleased that a unanimous verdict of guilt across the board came out of the more than half white jury room. The overwhelming sense of sadness and outrage accompanied feelings of relief that I still have to sort out. I think because I was well aware, I knew, it could have gone either way - in a factual situation that was so crystal clear right before our very eyes - this fills me with sadness and outrage. The relief comes knowing there will be one murderer held accountable amongst many still free and unaccounted, still snatching valued black lives under color of law.

06/14/2020

Rayshard Brooks. SAY HIS NAME. He was murdered on his daughters birthday, shot in the back three times by police as he ran away with a non- lethal taser, after resisting arrest. Police officers killed him, then strategically collected their shell casings, altering a murder scene, before ever checking for a pulse or offering aid of any kind. These officers do not need ADDITIONAL TRAINING. These officers are trained. They have NO VALUE for BLACK LIVES. THEY MUST BE ARRESTED AND CHARGED NOW. There will never any community trust in the police until and unless they are held accountable for their illegal acts.

The GBI says officers tried to take the man into custody after he failed a sobriety test. Witnesses reported a struggle between the man and officers over a Taser.

02/25/2020

Survey: A Majority Of Voters Support Review Of Extreme Sentences Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Email Vaidya Gullapalli Feb 24, 2020 Spotlights like this one provide original commentary and analysis on pressing criminal justice issues of the day. You can read them each day in our newsle...

02/13/2020

Chicagoans should not have to worry that a police officer may initiate and escalate contact — increasing anxiety and putting lives at risk — in an effort to gain a few extra dollars.

01/01/2020

Yes. And reparations to communities harmed by drug war to follow....

On the day before recreational cannabis becomes legal in Illinois, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced he was pardoning more than 11,000 people who had been convicted of low-level ma*****na crimes.

10/16/2018