Victims and the Criminal Justice System
Week of 10-3-11
4 October
- Guests:
- Chris Freeman: Dane County deputy DA.
- Steve Meyer: 32 years; 18 as solo, was state prosecutor
briefly
- Tom McAdams: 20 years in MKE DA, now on tax appeals in MSN
- Tim O'Shea: AUSA since 1991
- Decline 30% or so (or county ordinances) in Dane County
- AUSA for WD of Wis: 15 prosecutors, 44 counties
- DOJ: most serious readily provable offense
- AUSA: not too many victim witnesses in the grand jury. That
device is for developing the facts of a case, and lock-in
of essential testimony.
- "The mutuality of combat:" an alternative/contrary characterization
of the "cycle of violence."
- "Police contacts:" an open records request to law enforcement