Dallet calls for more expansive reading of rights protected in Wisconsin Constitution, drawing rebuke from Rebecca Bradley

Dallet argued the state Supreme Court has a long history of interpreting the Wisconsin Constitution as providing greater protections of individual liberties than the U.S. Constitution. That includes, for example, the state court finding a guaranteed right to counsel at the state’s expense in a criminal case more than 100 years before the U.S. Supreme Court reached a similar conclusion in 1963.

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Dallet calls for more expansive reading of rights protected in Wisconsin Constitution, drawing rebuke from Rebecca Bradley

Dallet argued the state Supreme Court has a long history of interpreting the Wisconsin Constitution as providing greater protections of individual liberties than the U.S. Constitution. That includes, for example, the state court finding a guaranteed right to counsel at the state’s expense in a criminal case more than 100 years before the U.S. Supreme Court reached a similar conclusion in 1963.

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