New Trial Ordered for Ted Oswald

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › June 30, 2004

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New trial ordered for Ted Oswald

Federal appeals court upholds jury-bias ruling in killing of Waukesha officer

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New Trial Ordered for Ted Oswald

By DAVID DOEGE ddoege@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel

Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Ted Oswald, convicted with his father in a notorious 1994 Waukesha County crime spree that left a police captain dead, should be retried or released from prison because biased jurors prevented him from having a fair trial, a federal appeals court in Chicago ruled Tuesday.

The 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld District Judge Lynn Adelman's March 2003 decision that Waukesha County Circuit Judge Lee Dreyfus did not do enough to investiga...

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