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Call Van Severen Law Office at (414) 270-0202 to discuss robbery, burglary, or criminal damage to property Wisconsin property crimes like robbery, burglary, and criminal damage to property are common throughout the state.  Property offenses cover a wide range of conduct, from relatively minor incidents to extremely serious felonies.  All property crimes involve victims and financial harm.  Sometimes…

Battery to a nurse is a felony in Wisconsin.  Contact the criminal defense lawyers at Van Severen Law Office for help: (414) 270-0202 Battery to a nurse was very briefly an official law on the books in Wisconsin.  As the United States was initially figuring out how to deal with COVID, certain individuals attacked and…

Mayhem charges?  Contact Van Severen Law Office at (414) 270-0202 Mayhem charges are rare in Wisconsin, but that doesn’t mean they don’t carry significant penalties.  Mayhem is a Class C felony, punishable by up to 40 years in prison and $100,000.00 in fines.  That 40 year prison sentence breaks down into 25 years initial confinement…

Burglary charges could result in time in prison.  Contact Van Severen Law Office for help: (414) 270-0202. Burglary charges in Wisconsin don’t require any kind of breaking and entering, but instead focus simply on entering certain locations with the intent to steal or commit some sort of other felony.  In other words, entering a warehouse…

Strangulation and suffocation is a felony in Wisconsin.  Contact Van Severen Law Office, S.C. for help at (414) 270-0202 At Van Severen Law Office, S.C. our Wisconsin criminal defense attorneys regularly represent individuals facing strangulation and suffocation charges.  We’ve worked on cases that involved simple fights, domestic violence situations, bar fights, and numerous other altercations…

What is “felon in possession of a firearm”? (Or “possession of a firearm by felon”?) Section 941.29(1m) of the Wisconsin Statutes provides us the law prohibiting felons from possessing firearms.  The text of the law indicates: A person who possesses a firearm is guilty of a Class G felony if any of the following applies:…

Aggravated battery is a felony in Wisconsin.  Our criminal defense attorneys regularly fight these charges. Aggravated battery charges result when someone intends to commit misdemeanor battery, but more serious injuries occur.  It’s for this reason that Wisconsin allows battery to proceed as either a misdemeanor (bodily harm) or a felony (great bodily harm).  While misdemeanor-level…

Van Severen Law Office, S.C. represents individuals facing misdemeanor battery charges.  Call us at (414) 270-0202 to speak with any of our criminal defense attorneys. Misdemeanor battery charges are the frequent result of physical conflicts.  Whether it’s a bar fight, a random confrontation, or a domestic violence situation, so long as the victim suffered no…

Throwing or discharging bodily fluids at public safety workers or prosecutors is a felony offense in Wisconsin.  Contact Van Severen Law Office, S.C. at (414) 270-0202 to speak with a criminal defense attorney. Throwing or discharging bodily fluids at a public safety worker or prosecutor is a felony level criminal charge in Wisconsin.  It frequently…