Goldman Law Center in the News!
After practicing law in Chicago for more than 16 years, Milwaukee-native Jonathan Goldman is expanding his practice to serve clients in Wisconsin.
During an interview with the Wisconsin Law Journal on Friday, Goldman said he has been paying close attention to the attorney shortage in Wisconsin and wants to help Wisconsin avoid a constitutional crisis as defendants are currently waiting days in jail before seeing a court-appointed attorney in stark conflict with the constitutional right to “a speedy trial.”
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Vitamin M For Mental Health: Self-Care for Clients
For almost anyone charged with a crime, the experience is one of the most challenging of their lives. Those new to the system are introduced to a slow, inefficient, and unfriendly justice system that views them as numbers instead of human beings. Repeat visitors are subject to the continued insistence that they are problematic to society and deserving of punishment. Defendant are labeled as “criminals”, regardless of the circumstances of their cases, their lives or even their true guilt. As defense attorneys and human beings, we truly do not want our clients or anyone else to suffer, and have noticed the pervasive problem of unaddressed mental health concerns and the negative effect it has on society and individuals.
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SAFE-T Act: Where Are We Now?
The United States has the sixth highest rate of incarceration of its own population in the world. The Safe-T Act claims to be for the betterment of people of color and poor people, but all it does is shift the public view of where these marginalized people are held in the system - a system that is designed to break them down and get them to plead out from the moment they enter.
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JURIES AND THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL
“Sadly, human nature shows this presumption to be wrong time and time again. Contrary to Law and Order and the contrived, innuendo-filled press conferences of police officials and prosecutors, the main charge of the justice system is not necessarily justice – it is efficiency.”
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