Former Lawyer For Brendan Dassey Of 'Making A Murderer' Kicked Off Judicial Bench For Acting Like A Cat

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Len Kachinsky

We fail to see how staring at a court employee for 45 minutes while tapping a pencil and making cat noises constitutes the maintenance of high standards of personal conduct or promotes the integrity of the judiciary.

— an excerpt from a judicial disciplinary opinion of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, where Len Kachinsky, who served as lawyer for Making a Murderer’s Brendan Dassey, was suspended from working as a reserve municipal judge for a three-year period (retroactive to July 2018) thanks to his incredibly strange interactions with a court manager who accused him of harassment.


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