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'Mini Soros' critique of risk assessment tool creator leads to heated response
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) - When former Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes slammed the "leftist billionaire" who created a bail risk assessment tool used to release the Waukesha massacre suspect Darrell Brooks, attorney David Safavian, who worked in the George W. Bush administration, took offense. -
Bail calculation tool developed by left-leaning philanthropist is widely used across the country
HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) – John Arnold, creator of Milwaukee County’s bail calculation tool, takes no responsibility for the Nov. 21 Waukesha Christmas parade massacre that left six dead and more than 60 injured. -
Milwaukee DA 'lets dangerous' criminals out of jail, former target says
MILWAUKEE – Democrat District Attorney John Chisholm, whose compassion for criminal suspects fatally extended to Darrell Brooks, demonstrated much less care for “John Doe” Republicans whose homes his agents ransacked. -
Milwaukee DA acknowledged bail reform policy risked 'inevitable failures'
MILWAUKEE – District Attorney John Chisholm, who says he will investigate how Darrell Brooks gained release on a felony for $1,000 just days before he allegedly killed five people and injured 40 in last Sunday's Waukesha massacre, anticipated possible tragedy in an article for Harvard’s criminal justice school in 2019. -
Milwaukee DA faces mounting criticism of bail reform policy; Critic says parade massacre was 'avoidable tragedy'
MILWAUKEE (Legal Newsline) - County District Attorney John Chisholm is facing criticism over his advocacy for bail reform following multiple deaths in Waukesha's Christmas parade on Sunday. -
Legal wrangling over Wis. DA’s probe into Walker recall campaign continues; nonprofit targeted by investigation files class action against prosecutor
The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, one of the targets of Milwaukee County District Attorney Mike Chisholm’s “John Doe” investigation, claims the district attorney, his employees and some state board staffers illegally seized the institute’s digital records during the now-stalled criminal probe that alleged “illegal coordination” of campaign funding by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and 29 independent nonprofits.