Woman Sues Ex-Prosecutor Ken Kratz Over Text Messages

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Posted on 18th October 2010 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized

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A woman who was sent sexually oriented text messages from the prosecutor on her domestic-abuse abuse case filed suit Friday, alleging that her constitutional rights were violated, according to the Associated Press.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/105057964.html

 The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Milwaukee by Stephanie Van Groll, 26.

Ex-Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz had texted Van Groll 30 times last year trying to convince her to have an affair with him while he was prosecuting her former boyfriend for trying to strangle her.

The suit, seeking unspecificed damages, claims that under Wisconsin law witnesses have a right to be protected from any harm that results from their cooperation with authorities.

Three In Disabled Car Killed In Accident Near Madison, Wis.

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Posted on 9th October 2010 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized

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 Three young people who stopped on an interstate median near Madison, Wis., to fix a flat tire were killed when a car struck their disabled vehicle Thursday.

Carlos Rios, a star diver from Riverside High School who survived the horrific accident, told his version of the crash to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/104594819.html

 Rios was one of the three men to exit the Chrysler Sebring to fix its flat tire. The disabled vehicle was on a median on Interstate 39/90 early Thursday morning in the Madison suburb of Burke when an Acura came out of nowhere and struck them.

Although Rios was able to get out of the way, the other two men with him were killed, as was one of the women in the back seat of the Sebring. 

Officials are deciding whether to bring charges against the Acura’s 31-year-old driver. Authorities said that alcohol was a factor in the crash.

The victims were Marcus Johnson, 19,  of Glendale; Elysia Rapp, 23, of Racine; and Wilfredo Ugarte, 23, of Puerto Rico.