MADISON, WI (WTAQ) – State Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman has asked his colleagues to change their minds, and hear an appeal from an ex-Walker aide convicted of felony misconduct.
Gableman, a member of the court’s conservative majority, did not say why he wanted the justices to consider overturning Kelly Rindfleisch’s conviction.
She began a six-month jail term in April, for illegally doing campaign work for GOP lieutenant governor candidate Brett Davis while she was supposed to serving Milwaukee County taxpayers as then-County Executive Scott Walker’s deputy chief of staff.
Rindfleisch has also asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up her case.
She said investigators illegally combed her personal e-mails for evidence, saying the search warrants which allowed those searchers were too board.
The state justices first decided in March to let her conviction stand, after it was upheld by an appellate court.
Justice David Prosser did not take part in that decision, so 3 of the other 5 justices who did rule would have to vote in favor of reconsidering the case.
Former Justice Janine Geske said she’s never heard of this kind of reconsideration request. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said the state justices said no in 1979 to reconsider taking a case between Milwaukee and its Catholic Archdiocese.
The court said the litigants had no authority to ask for a second chance. It remains undecided what the court will do, now that a justice himself has made the request.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
