On Tuesday Janine P. Geske, a retired Wisconsin Supreme Court justice; Patricia D. McMahon, retired Milwaukee County circuit judge; Mark A. Frankel, retired Dane County circuit judge; E. Michael McCann, retired Milwaukee County district attorney; Robert J. Jambois, former Kenosha County district attorney; Gregory J. O’Meara, former Milwaukee County assistant district attorney and associate professor at Marquette University Law School; and Ben Kempinen, clinical professor and director of the Prosecution Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School submitted an opinion piece that is to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that most definitely is worth a read…
As people who have devoted much of our lives to the prosecutorial function, the judicial function or both and, more important, who have strived to support the rule of law, we think it important to speak.
We understand that political passions are high at this time in Wisconsin’s history. But we also understand that such times are exactly when the dispassionate rule of law is most essential. This nation and this state depend upon independent prosecutors who have the courage, objectivity and discipline to follow the evidence wherever it may lead, proceeding deliberately and cautiously all the while. Likewise, the nation and the state depend upon an independent judiciary to administer justice impartially, objectively and honestly.
The Milwaukee County district attorney, his office and Nettesheim consistently have acted in exactly these traditions. They have done nothing to shake or betray our confidence in them and in the independence of their work.
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