A Wisconsin Court of Appeals panel yesterday handed a Milwaukee boy, who was 10 when he was charged with homicide, a rare second chance to push his case into juvenile court. The decision sends the case back to circuit court, undercuts a 1995 state law that judges had leaned on to deny reverse-waiver petitions, and cracks the door open for the child’s legal team to try again to move the case into the juvenile system.
Appeals panel orders case returned to circuit court
A three-judge panel, Chief Judge Maxine A. White, Judge M. Joseph Donald and Judge Sarah J. Geenen, overturned a November 2024 circuit court ruling and concluded that the statute used to block transfers was unconstitutional, according to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The panel sent the…..