{"id":1902421,"date":"2023-03-21T17:59:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T21:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-wisconsin-supreme-court-candidate-defends-soft-on-crime-record\/"},"modified":"2023-03-21T18:01:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T22:01:02","slug":"liberal-wisconsin-supreme-court-candidate-defends-soft-on-crime-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-wisconsin-supreme-court-candidate-defends-soft-on-crime-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court Candidate Defends Soft-On-Crime Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliberal-wisconsin-supreme-court-candidate-defends-soft-on-crime-record%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1902421&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div>\n<h2>Janet Protasiewicz Gave Light Sentences to Some Offenders<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\tJanet Protasiewicz at March 21 candidates&#8217; debate\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In a recent debate against her conservative opponent, former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly, liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz defended her record of issuing light sentences to some rapists and pedophiles during her tenure as a Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge, including giving no jail time to a sex offender who later killed a woman. She argued that a handful of her cases had been cherry-picked and twisted to criticize her, calling the criticism &#8220;unfair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/claim-yours-ots-fbeacon-ads-30?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023marchots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/claim-yours-ots-fbeacon-ads-30?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023marchots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In response, Kelly argued that the cases were representative of her record on &#8220;weak-on-crime sentencing&#8221; and highlighted several of her court decisions, including one in which she gave no jail time to a man who sexually assaulted a 13-year-old child and posted a video of the attack on Facebook. Another case involved the release of a man who raped a 15-year-old, citing COVID concerns, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Wisconsin Supreme Court race between Protasiewicz and Kelly is the only scheduled debate of the election, which could have national implications for the 2024 presidential elections and has already broken U.S. spending records for state judiciary campaigns. Crime has become a crucial issue in the race, with Kelly and his allies criticizing Protasiewicz over her sentencing history.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">During the debate, Protasiewicz denied Kelly&#8217;s claims, calling them outright lies. However, court records contradict her claims, including her statement that COVID concerns were not a factor in her decision to release a man who went on to kill a woman in a drunk driving accident. In one case, Protasiewicz gave a 14-month prison sentence to a man who raped his own cousin while the victim was unconscious, saying that she did not think he was a danger to society. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8216;From <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/liberal-wisconsin-supreme-court-candidate-defends-soft-on-crime-record\/\">&#8220;Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court Candidate Defends Soft-On-Crime Record&#8221;<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janet Protasiewicz gave no jail time to a sex offender who went on to kill a woman Janet Protasiewicz at March 21 candidates&#8217; debate Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz in a debate against her conservative opponent on Tuesday defended her decisions to issue light sentences to some rapists and pedophiles while serving as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":1902422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4076,4733,4549,5206,4752,16147,4730,4124],"class_list":["post-1902421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-candidate","tag-court","tag-defends","tag-liberal","tag-record","tag-soft-on-crime","tag-supreme","tag-wisconsin"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1902422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}