This is the guy who crashed his car through the Waukesha Christmas Parade in 2021. During his 2022 trial, he gained national attention as he represented himself and made a mockery of the court system. He repeatedly got himself booted out of the courtroom, made ridiculous objections, built a box fort out of evidence boxes, etc.

He was eventually convicted and sentenced to serve multiple life without parole sentences plus something like 800 years.

His appellate attorney has successfully filed extensions for his appeal as he has been working the better part of a year digging through the trial record, documents, etc trying to figure out if there's anything he can appeal. If you remember the Rittenhouse case, this is one of Chirafasi's former law partners. He's highly experienced and has met with Brooks on multiple occasions.

Today Brooks is back in front of the trial court because he wants to fire this appellate attorney and represent himself for the appeal. Reading between the lines, it looks like this attorney has informed him he doesn't have much to work with.

https://www.youtube.com/live/HUJ9FypN-Bc?si=v3n8t7jS5vm5Uj2z

Brooks has been moved to South Dakota, if I'm not mistaken for his safety as he got beat up in the Wisconsin prison. Not sure if Wisconsin is paying them to house him or if he's there in a federal prison because of his federal issues. So far he's actually been pretty respectful.

Darrell Brooks is a walking poster child for the death penalty.

Rapier108 said:

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Darrell Brooks is a walking poster child for the death penalty late term abortion, if there ever was one.

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FIFY.

Just need to take him out back and bleed him out like livestock.

The prison he's in in South Dakota doesn't have a "law lie berry" so it's impacting his ability to do research in his case. He's aware of this and still wants to represent himself.

I don't know what meds they have him on but it does look like he's gotten on something. He's listening, not interrupting, not arguing. Still a dummy.

I watched the entire trial. The prosecutors were damn near flawless. Judge Dorrow bent over backwards to accommodate Brooks, sometimes too much so.

Zero reversible error that I saw.

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Goodluck dip****

aggiehawg said:

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I watched the entire trial. The prosecutors were damn near flawless. Judge Dorrow bent over backwards to accommodate Brooks, sometimes too much so.

Zero reversible error that I saw.

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The moment that stuck out to me the most was when Brooks opened himself up to having his previous run-ins with the law brought up before the jury and the male prosecutor starting listing the stuff off. He knew when to just be quiet after Brooks got emotional and started screaming "Did she tell you she said she was 18?!?!", basically bury himself further and had to be removed…again.

I'm no lawyer, but, while the latitude he was allowed was annoying, it certainly seems to be paying dividends now.

Quincey P. Morris said:

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I'm no lawyer, but, while the latitude he was allowed was annoying, it certainly seems to be paying dividends now.

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Have to do that with pro se defendants. Cannot hold them to standards that lawyers would have in any court. (I tried a case against a pro se plaintiff in a civil case. Judge gave that plaintiff leeway. Me? Not so much. But even as a baby lawyer, I understood that game. I won BTW. And that judge truly sucked as a judge. He just had a political family machine behind him. On another case, I got him reversed by the state supreme court. That was fun.)