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Van Severen Law Office, S.C. provides smart, aggressive criminal defense throughout Wisconsin.

is a law firm based in Milwaukee, WI that provides criminal defense throughout Wisconsin. Our criminal defense attorneys represent individuals facing charges ranging from disorderly conduct to homicide. No matter the seriousness or complexity of your case, our defense attorneys can help.

06/05/2026

New Jersey police sergeant Darryl Brown has been charged with stealing $10,000 worth of cameras and other equipment from a photojournalist who had been injured covering tense protests outside a Newark immigration jail.

A New Jersey police sergeant has been charged with stealing $10,000 worth of camera equipment from a photojournalist.

06/04/2026

A federal judge on Wednesday considered whether to throw out a jury’s guilty verdict against former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan, who was convicted of felony obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal officers.

A federal judge is considering whether to throw out a jury’s guilty verdict against former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan who was convicted of felony obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal officers.

06/03/2026

A man cited for projecting “stop ICE murders” on the Colorado Supreme Court is suing members of the city police department and Colorado State Patrol claiming violations of his right to free speech and petition.

Denver police cited Trevor Ycas after he projected the phrases “stop ICE murders,” “de-ICE Colorado,” and “abolish ICE” onto the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center in Denver.

06/02/2026

UC Berkeley's law school is banning students from using AI on most assignments and exams starting summer 2026. The reason: professors kept catching fake and misrepresented court cases in student work. It is one of the strictest AI policies implemented by a top law school.

Effective summer 2026, law students at the University of California Berkeley will no longer be allowed to use AI for most class assignments and exams. Learn more at FindLaw.

06/01/2026

This is the second time DOJ has tried to charge James Comey. A judge tossed the first case over an improperly appointed prosecutor. Now the prosecutor behind the seashells case has stepped aside too.

Matthew Petracca, a former Republican county committeeman, was the rookie federal prosecutor who brought the highly criticized case to a federal grand jury.

05/29/2026

A Palm Beach County deputy ticketed a driver for holding a phone in her right hand. She has no right hand, and raised her arm to prove it. He wrote it anyway: "I saw you." The $116 citation was dismissed months later for lack of evidence.

"I mean, obviously not," the woman laughed as the deputy made an apparently absurd allegation.

05/28/2026

Penn and Teller told the Supreme Court that police used the same memory trick magicians use to fool audiences. They hypnotized the only eyewitness against Charles Flores. Now he sits on Texas death row.

Experts say “investigative hypnosis” often leads to false testimony, but Texas courts have refused to hear Charles Flores’s case.

05/27/2026

The police chief Minneapolis hired to reform the department after George Floyd's murder just resigned for interfering with an investigation into his own behavior. He deleted a contact from his city phone to hide evidence from investigators.

The mayor of Minneapolis says the police chief hired to oversee reforms after George Floyd’s killing has chosen to resign rather than face discipline for interfering with an investigation into his conduct.

05/26/2026

Maryland's violent crime rate fell 4.5% last year. Baltimore hit its lowest homicide numbers in decades. Against that backdrop, the legislature passed five reform bills focused on rehabilitation and second chances.

State Public Defender Natasha Dartigue applauds what she sees as the key restorative justice bills passed by Maryland lawmakers this year, but she says there’s more work to be done.

05/25/2026

The Maricopa County, AZ sheriff's department spent millions meant for racial profiling reforms on Tasers, office renovations, golf carts, and even cable TV subscriptions.

Now they’re arguing the oversight is “too expensive.”

Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was misattributed or misappropriated.

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