Brown County judge glad federal mandatory guidelines gone.

• Date: 30 April 2007
• Author: Ziemer, David

Byline: David Ziemer

U.S. District Judge William C. Griesbach gave participants at the Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association's annual meeting a candid discussion about the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines. Griesbach, a state court judge in Brown County before his appointment to the court in 2002, had no familiarity with the guidelines when appointed (and neither did most attorneys in Green Bay before creation of the Green Bay District). "It was new to us all," he recalled during his April 19 presentation...