If you're a tourist visiting the Wisconsin Dells, an operating while intoxicated (OWI) arrest can derail your vacation and leave you facing an unfamiliar legal maze. Dealing with out-of-state driving laws, multiple local county courts and confusing timelines is...
A traffic stop can upend your entire night within minutes. Officers discover drugs in the vehicle, and suddenly you face charges for contraband that may not belong to you. Proximity to drugs is not equivalent to legal possession of them. How Wisconsin law defines...
A drunk driving conviction can affect someone long after their sentence is handed down. One of the questions that some people have is how long the conviction may appear on their record. If you’re in this position, it’s important for you to know exactly how Wisconsin...
Being accused of drunk driving means that an individual facing the charges will have to determine how to handle their defense strategy. For some, a conviction will have an impact on their ability to maintain the professional license that allows them to continue their...
The thought of having a suspended license may seem like no big deal and easy to circumvent. After all, you can only get caught driving with a suspended license if you’re pulled over first, right? It’s not uncommon for people to think that as long as they’re extra cautious on the road, no one will know that they are not…
“White collar” crimes involve various types of fraud and theft within business and government sectors — insurance fraud, identity theft, tax evasion, insider trading, bribery, etc. The main objective of the criminals in these cases is non-violent, personal financial gain, concealing their crimes from the public and usually severely damaging their employer. White collar or financial crimes are taken very…
Theft is the action of taking property, money or possessions from another person without their consent. While this term covers a broad spectrum of circumstances, there are more specific classifications that have their own punishments ascribed to them based on situational criteria within the Wisconsin law: fraud, larceny and embezzlement. These three terms — while they all represent unlawful, unauthorized…
It is an unfortunate fact that not only Wisconsin, but the entire country, is facing an opioid crisis. When you hear the word “opioid”, what do you think of? You probably think of heroin or, recently, fentanyl. But a lot of people don’t realize that opioids actually include prescription pain pills that contain compounds such as hydrocodone, oxycodone, codeine, methadone…
Wisconsin THC Possession Laws Marijuana legalization seems like it’s constantly in the news these days. Nine states (at the time of this article’s posting) — Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington plus the District of Columbia — have legalized it for recreational use; and more states seem to be headed in that direction. However, the laws…
Wisconsin Domestic Violence Statistics Domestic violence is a very serious, but prevalent crime in the US. The US Department of Justice defines domestic abuse as, “a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner.” Abuse can manifest itself in a variety of forms —…