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Your Thoughts: What Should Happen With Allegations Against Justice Prosser?

Physical assault allegations come weeks after Prosser won election following controversial recount due to Waukesha County clerk’s snafu.

 

News reports from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this weekend allege Justice David Prosser was physically violent with Justice Ann Walsh Bradley during a dispute around the time the state Supreme Court released its ruling on a state law that limits collective bargaining for public employee unions. The report also states witnesses claim Prosser was acting out of self defense.

The re-election of Prosser brought national media attention to Waukesha County after Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus did not save her election data in a report to the Associated Press, which left off all the votes from the City of Brookfield in her unofficial report. The exclusion of the data led the challenger, Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg, to declare victory. After Brookfield’s votes were included in the reports, Prosser was declared the winner.

The state Supreme Court election had increased interest as Prosser is a conservative judge and Kloppenburg aligned herself with the Democratic Party. Those against Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill – also known informally by opponents as the union-busting bill – were pushing for Kloppenburg’s election.

However, Walker reportedly spoke out against the fighting in the state Supreme Court, according to a Janesville Gazette article. 

In the meantime, the Wisconsin Capitol Police have turned the investigation of the allegations against Prosser over to the Dane County Sheriff’s Department.

Patch readers, what do you think should happen with this case? Should Prosser immediately resign over the allegations or should due process play out with the investigation?

What should happen with the allegations against Prosser? Do you believe Bradley's accusation? Tell us in the comments.

gopackgo

3:18 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011

No I don't believe the allegations. Why don't you also report that several witnesses said he was defending himself when the liberal justice charged him? Is there a bias here?????? Was this article written by a unioin toadie?????

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St. Swithin

3:34 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011

"union toadie"? Gopackgo, you are a fine one to talk about bias. The article clearly stated the assault was alleged. Jumping up to proclaim his innocence before the facts are known clearly shows your bias. This is a case of conflicting eyewitness testimony. Prosser says he was defending himself. If this was two normal people fighting at a bar the police would have hauled them both in and done an investigation. Instead it's members of the politically polarized State Supreme Court. I predict no one will press charges and no investigation will be done. If there is an actual investigation then I will examine the evidence and voice an opinion on who is guilty and who should step down or be arrested. In the mean time I will just have to cherish the image of a bunch of geriatrics in black robes going at each other with gavels.

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gopackgo

3:51 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011

Yes there is bias Kirsh. No mention of the eye witnesses that said Bradley charged him. If that isn't bias, what is bias in your liberal world? What color is the sky in the land of rainbows, gum drops and unicorns?

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BassGreat

4:52 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011

"No I don't believe the allegations. Why don't you also report that several witnesses said he was defending himself when the liberal justice charged him? Is there a bias here?????? Was this article written by a unioin toadie?????" - Gopackgo

So you're in favor of men choking or hitting women? Typical, heh?

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gopackgo

5:14 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011

The only thing typical is the way liberal micro brains debate. Where does it say I'm in favor of men choking or hitting women bass-grate? Bass Great? Only in your own mind.

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Old and In the Way

6:42 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011

All abusers claim their victims "made" them do it. There's an obvious reason why this nearly 70 year old "man" has never been married - he obviously hates women.

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gopackgo

7:05 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011

That's pure speculation. But liberals are expert at that.

gopackgo

3:21 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011

You just had to include "union busting bill"??? Confirmed, union toadie, liberal bias.

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Sarah Millard

3:41 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011

Gopackgo -- didn't mean to leave out part about claims Prosser defended himself. That was by no means an attempt by the unions to criticize Prosser :)

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gopackgo

4:20 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011

Oh, you "DIDN'T MEAN TO LEAVE OUT" that part. LOL. Maybe the Journal Slant-inal will share their Pulitzer with you for "crafting" news.

bill dugan

3:48 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011

Bradley should immediately resign for assaulting Prosser.

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gopackgo

3:49 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011

Should Bradley IMMEDIATELY RESIGN over the allegations?

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BassGreat

4:47 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011

I believe we already have much proof that men who will refer to women in the "B" venacular might engage in violence towards them also. Yeah, poor little Republican judge Prosser-man in need of protection from crazed female judge. And if a picture paints a thousand words.........

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Old and In the Way

6:36 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011

I'll be happy to teach anyone who thinks it's okay to hit women otherwise using the same methods my dad and uncles used on their brother-in-law many years ago.

It worked well. He left and was never heard from again.

Prosser is an obviously violent person, both in word and deed. He needs to go.

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gopackgo

7:07 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011

Sounds like you're threatening violence right before you condemn it. Playing both sides in the way?

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LoveWaukesha

8:12 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011

Have you or that matter any of you that are already to hang Prosser ever heard of due process of the law. This happened almost 2 weeks ago and is now coming up. There are witnesses that have stated that Bradley instigated the incident by loosing her own cool and went after him. Still, even with the news reporting that, doesn't mean it's a fact. Everyone deserves their day in court. All this mudslinging is ridiculous, on both sides.

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Lyle Ruble

8:37 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011

I think we need to withold personal judgements until the two current investigations are complete. As high a profile as this incident is, I think it will be throughly investigated. With the tension between Justice Ptosser and Justices Abrahamson and Bradley, it would not surprise me that there is some fire associated with this smoke.

shelbyanne

10:59 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011

He should do the right thing and repent, plea bargain. Resign and pay her $10,000 and legal fees and he can do 6 months probation.
Better than 6 months in prison.

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Elaine Blonigen

11:03 am on Tuesday, June 28, 2011

We weren't there. None of us. Why do we jump to conclusions so quickly. We may never know the "whole" truth but I think I'll wait to see how it all plays out. I will say though that I am embarrassed that our Supreme Court is involved in such hatred that neither party can control their emotions. We expect better than that.

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