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U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Warrantless Blood Draws

This was a closely watched  case in legal circles and the Court's ruling was, in my view, exactly correct.  The rather brutal idea that the police can forcibly hold a citizen down and take their  blood simply because they declined to give them bodily evidence is an affront to our historical view of individual liberty and the sanctity of our bodies.   The Fourth Amendment is designed to be a bulwark against exactly this type of…
  • Location and Date Milwaukee Journal Sentine April 17, 2013
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John Birdsall featured in the Journal Sentinel: "Lawyer wants girl charged for child porn - for the photos she sent to teacher"

The attorney for a former Hales Corners teacher facing charges he had sex with a female student has asked a judge to charge the girl with distributing child pornography - for sending nude photos of herself to the teacher. The move comes after prosecutors refused to issue the complaint. Craig Perino was charged in Racine County in January 2012 with two counts of sex with child 16 or older, both misdemeanors. According to the complaint,…
  • Location and Date Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 22, 2013
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John Birdsall took on this extremely difficult case in 2009 and got an acquittal

Man charged in 1990 strangulation A 47-year-old Milwaukee man has been charged with the strangulation of a woman in her home almost 20 years ago, after he was linked to the crime by DNA. David W. Lewis faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of first-degree reckless homicide in the death of Vernell Jeter. He was bound over for trial after a preliminary hearing earlier this month and entered a not-guilty plea at…

John Birdsall is featured in the Journal Sentinel to comment on the state of public defender policy in Wisconsin

Lawyer challenges ban from public defender's office Skilled attorney's fee too high for system A Milwaukee lawyer says he has been unfairly banned from taking on cases for the state public defender's office, despite high-quality work with good results for indigent clients over the past seven years. The office doesn't dispute that James J. Connolly provided high-quality representation; it says he charged too much for it. Neither the public defender's office nor Connolly would say…

John Birdsall comments on Milwaukee police strip searches

Milwaukee County prosecutors have launched a secret John Doe investigation to determine whether seven Milwaukee police officers and a supervisor broke the law while conducting strip searches in District 5, sources confirmed Monday. The complaints - which Chief Edward Flynn acknowledged go back a couple of years - include allegations that officers sexually assaulted people and violated their civil rights while conducting rectal searches for drugs on the street. The department did not begin its…
  • Location and Date Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 26, 2012
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John Birdsall Comments on criminal prosecution procedure

Senate hearsay measure revives talk of dropping stage in process A new effort to streamline criminal prosecutions in Wisconsin takes aim at hearings once considered a critical stage in the process, but which some argue have morphed into costly, time-consuming tools for the defense: the preliminary examination. A Senate bill would allow all forms of hearsay at preliminary hearings and has rekindled talk of eliminating them - something the state's Judicial Council supports. Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West…

John Birdsal explains that DNA evidence does not guarantee a conviction

Slayings case may not be a slam dunk It's probably too early to handicap the trial of accused serial killer Walter E. Ellis, but people are already talking about what twists and turns the closely watched case will take. Will prosecutors find more evidence that Ellis strangled seven Milwaukee women from 1986 to 2007? If they don't, will the fact that his DNA was at the crime scenes and that he dodged an effort to…

Attorney John Birdsall volunteers at the Milwaukee Rescue Mission to help others- see what you can do to help here

Attorney John A. Birdsall of Birdsall Law Offices knows that helping out in the community is important.  He enjoys practicing law for his clients at his law firm.  However, John knows it to be equally important to give back to the community.  John has been involved in programs that help people who cannot afford premier legal advice the opportunity to get advice that can help them out of very difficult situations.  Many of the men…

Keith Findley from UW Law "Defining Innocence"

The DNA exonerations of the past 20 years have heightened awareness of the problem of wrongful convictions. As the number of exonerations expands, and increasingly includes exonerations in cases with no DNA evidence, just what counts as an "exoneration," and who can legitimately claim to be "innocent," becomes increasingly important and controversial. The definitions are important for research and policy reasons, for they define the pool of cases that can be studied to learn about…

Conrad Murray Trial: Propofol dosing requires care, experts say LA Times

Doyle's proposal to free some inmates early stirs controversy

  • Location and Date Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 21, 2009
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Corrections workers back Doyle's early release plan

  • Location and Date Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 11, 2009
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Open carrying of firearms legal, Van Hollen says

  • Location and Date Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 20, 2009
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Recommendations to solve state's prison overcrowding include proposal for new sentencing scheme

  • Location and Date State Bar of Wisconsin, April 23, 2009
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Theodore Perlick Molinari featured in Wisconsin Law Journal as 2009 'Up & Coming Lawyer'

John Birdsall quoted in Racine Journal Times > Last Minute Witness Could Pose Dilemma