http://badgerblogger.com/?p=14250 Commentary on the news of the day, local and national including discussions of sports, entertainment, games and other daily activity. All this with the common sense view from the heartland, Milwaukee Wisconsin. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:06:39 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://badgerblogger.com/?p=14250&cpage=1#comment-221179 Don Krueger Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:42:36 +0000 http://badgerblogger.com/?p=14250#comment-221179 Hilarious!!! Hilarious!!!

]]> http://badgerblogger.com/?p=14250&cpage=1#comment-221173 Glenn D. Frankovis Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:17:27 +0000 http://badgerblogger.com/?p=14250#comment-221173 From the video I saw, it could be argued that Bill was going to attack the pusher when Bill went nose to nose with the pusher thereby causing the pusher to fear an imminent attack by Bill and responding by pushing Bill away from him. Whether or not that argument would alter the City Attorney's or the Court's decision is anybody's guess. In any case, citations were adopted many years ago to take the place of what we used to refer to as an "Order-In" to the City Attorney's Office for review and possible prosecution. The citations have a "review date" and a "court date". At the "review date" a reviewing City Attorney reviews the citation to determine, among other things, if the elements of the offense are present to proceed with prosecution. If so, the reviewing City Attorney approves the case for trial and authorizes the people necessary for the prosecution of his/her case to be subpoenaed. The "offender"/defendant has the option to appear at the City Attorney's Office (prosecution section) on the review date and present any witnesses/evidence in his defense or just do so in court on the trial date. The initial appearance in court is for the purpose of making a plea - guilty; not guilty; or no contest. A plea of "not guilty" results in another trial date and all parties return at a later date to try the case. Often times the City Attorney, in order to expedite two or more companion cases and avoid trials, will offer the defendant a deal to plead guilty/no contest to one charge in exchange for dropping the other charge. That's the part of the system we used to call the old Monte Hall "Let's make a deal" program (for those of you old enough to remember that program). From the video I saw, it could be argued that Bill was going to attack the pusher when Bill went nose to nose with the pusher thereby causing the pusher to fear an imminent attack by Bill and responding by pushing Bill away from him. Whether or not that argument would alter the City Attorney’s or the Court’s decision is anybody’s guess. In any case, citations were adopted many years ago to take the place of what we used to refer to as an “Order-In” to the City Attorney’s Office for review and possible prosecution. The citations have a “review date” and a “court date”. At the “review date” a reviewing City Attorney reviews the citation to determine, among other things, if the elements of the offense are present to proceed with prosecution. If so, the reviewing City Attorney approves the case for trial and authorizes the people necessary for the prosecution of his/her case to be subpoenaed. The “offender”/defendant has the option to appear at the City Attorney’s Office (prosecution section) on the review date and present any witnesses/evidence in his defense or just do so in court on the trial date. The initial appearance in court is for the purpose of making a plea – guilty; not guilty; or no contest. A plea of “not guilty” results in another trial date and all parties return at a later date to try the case. Often times the City Attorney, in order to expedite two or more companion cases and avoid trials, will offer the defendant a deal to plead guilty/no contest to one charge in exchange for dropping the other charge. That’s the part of the system we used to call the old Monte Hall “Let’s make a deal” program (for those of you old enough to remember that program).

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