The Brief
- A Shorewood municipal judge on Wednesday found a man guilty of trespassing.
- The man admitted to walking past signs that marked private property along the Lake Michigan shoreline last summer.
- In December, he told FOX6 that he hoped to appeal a guilty verdict all the way to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
SHOREWOOD, Wis. – A Shorewood municipal judge on Wednesday found a man guilty of trespassing for choosing to walk along the Lake Michigan shoreline – past “no trespassing” signs that marked private property – last year.
Fine with fine
As a result of the guilty verdict, Paul Florsheim will have to pay a $313 ticket. It’s an outcome he’s not only fine with, it’s the one he wanted when he chose to defend himself in municipal court at Shorewood Village Hall in December.
Florsheim told FOX6 News that he hoped to appeal a guilty verdict all the way to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and he’d already had environmental attorneys reach out wanting to represent him at that time.
‘No trespassing’
The backstory:
Florsheim said he had walked the stretch of Shorewood beach on and off for about 50 years until he ran into the property owner, Dan Domagala, last summer.…