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Craig Mastantuono

THOSE AREN’T FIGHTING WORDS IN WISCONSIN

An analysis of "fighting words" makes the headlines today, with the Wisconsin Court of Appeals overturning a disorderly conduct conviction resulting from the defendant's profanity-laced Facebook post about the police in the Village of Arena, Iowa County, Wisconsin.

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Craig Mastantuono

STORYTELLING IN TRIAL

Craig Mastantuono is at the Wisconsin State Public Defender Trial Skills Academy this week, helping other (mostly beginning) lawyers learn to try cases.

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Leah Thomas

STONED DRIVERS ARE SAFER THAN DRUNK ONES

A federal agency – the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) – published a new study that shows there is no increased risk of an accident when a driver smokes weed prior to driving when adjusted for age, gender, ethnicity, and alcohol concentration.

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Leah R. Thomas

HEROIN IS THE NEW CRACK

As the heroin epidemic sweeps through communities across the country, it takes countless young lives with it, either through death or incarceration. Unfortunately, in our own practice, we've seen both, and every local community is talking about how this happened.

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Craig Mastantuono

WISCONSIN: INCARCERATION NATION

An interesting story appears in today's (11/30/14) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, about two men who killed others while driving recklessly and under the influence of intoxicants, and their respective unequal treatment serving prison sentences in Wisconsin.

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