With the election less than three weeks away, conservative Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel and his Republican allies are focusing their attacks on sentences Dane County Judge Susan Crawford handed down in a pair of child sexual assault cases.
Ads claim she could have given the convicted men decades in prison. Experts say such a move would be rare.
In one of the cases, a lawyer for the defendant cited the Supreme Court campaign ad blitz against Crawford in a motion calling on her to recuse, arguing details of the case “have been taken out of context and sensationalized by right-wing media.”
Two ads from a political action committee backed by Elon Musk call Crawford “dangerous” and “wrong for Wisconsin” for prison sentences she issued against two men convicted on multiple first-degree child sexual assault charges.
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio