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riversedge

(70,285 posts)
Sat Mar 21, 2015, 09:57 AM Mar 2015

Prosecutor alerts justices to secrecy violation in Walker John Doe case

I doubt that our bought and paid for RW Supreme Court gives a hoot.




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Prosecutor alerts justices to secrecy violation in John Doe


By Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel
March 20, 2015


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Madison — A special prosecutor has alerted the state Supreme Court to a violation of the secrecy order in the probe of Gov. Scott Walker's campaign and conservative allies.

Prosecutor Fran Schmitz made the allegation in a sealed letter to the court Thursday and also referenced the allegation in an open cover letter that was released by the court's clerk for the first time Friday.

Schmitz doesn't name the violation in the open letter or speculate on the leaker's identity, but he made the allegation only days after a Wall Street Journal editorial wrote about the contents of a sealed motion made by the special prosecutor in the John Doe probe.

"I am filing a letter directed to the justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court regarding an 'apparent violation of Supreme Court order and John Doe secrecy order,'" Schmitz said..........

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Prosecutor alerts justices to secrecy violation in Walker John Doe case (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2015 OP
Some laws are not enforced and others are. I guess it depends on which way the winds blow. midnight Mar 2015 #1
Club for Growth spending represents why Schmitz wants justices to step aside... midnight Mar 2015 #2

midnight

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2. Club for Growth spending represents why Schmitz wants justices to step aside...
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 04:56 PM
Mar 2015

Naturally the other side want's to move ahead with their payed justices and claim that this case has been delayed long enough and move on quickly with their club for growth justices in place....

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