{"id":3178,"date":"2023-05-31T23:15:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T23:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2023-05-31T23:58:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T23:58:15","slug":"da-refiles-charges-against-milwaukee-mayors-brother-mails-him-summons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3178","title":{"rendered":"DA Refiles Charges Against Milwaukee Mayor\u2019s Brother, Mails Him Summons"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/milwaukee-mayor-brother\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The Milwaukee County District Attorney\u2019s Office has refiled felony criminal charges against Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson\u2019s brother<\/a> the day after a judge tossed the charges because an essential witness was not available.<\/p>\n

The DA\u2019s office charged Allen Addison \u2013 again \u2013 with first-degree reckless injury (use of a dangerous weapon) and possessing a firearm as a felon in connection with shooting a Milwaukee man in the head, court records show.<\/a><\/p>\n

However, Allen Addison was NOT booked into the jail. \u201cSummons mailed. Defendant ordered into room 221 Safety Building on 6\/20\/23 @ 1:30p,\u201d court records say.<\/p>\n

The charges could be refiled because the judge, David Feiss, dismissed the charges without prejudice.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin Right Now reported previously that Feiss tossed the charges against Addison when the witness, the shooting victim\u2019s neighbor, did not show for a jury trial. She claimed to be out of state, twice missing court dates. Addison was released on a signature bond after the state admitted it couldn\u2019t meet his speedy trial demand due to the witness no-show.<\/p>\n

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WRN also exclusively reported that<\/a>, according to court documents, Addison, who has previous felony convictions for witness intimidation, was accused of violating a no-contact order four days before the shooting incident charges were dismissed. He was accused of entering an exclusion zone around the shooting victim\u2019s house. Again, the essential witness is a neighbor of that victim.<\/p>\n

Addison has still not been charged by the DA\u2019s office with bail jumping for that allegation. We asked the DA\u2019s office why and received no response.<\/p>\n

The shooting victim, Eddie Knox, was shot in the head. Addison, the mayor\u2019s half-brother, then held police on a two-hour standoff, refusing to come out of a house. He has not been charged in connection with the standoff, either.<\/p>\n

Back in 2021, we interviewed DA John Chisholm in a courthouse hallway. Chisholm revealed in that interview that officials were using a previously unreported process \u2013 which he blamed on COVID \u2013 to hand many arrested suspects \u201csummons\u201d (a notice) to come to court for their first appearance, rather than book them into the jail and requiring them to bail them out at all. That means that many offenders were left on the streets after their arrests, and it was left to them to do the right thing and show up for their first court appearance.<\/p>\n

To create space in the jail \u201cinstead of bringing people downtown and booking them,\u201d suspects were booked at district stations and given \u201corder in dates and given a summons. It\u2019s just a different approach,\u201d said Chisholm.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past, everyone was brought down immediately\u2026. You don\u2019t stay at Glendale, West Allis, or (Milwaukee police) district number 3 for long,\u201d Chisholm explained. \u201cYou get booked there quickly and put down in the jail.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/milwaukee-mayor-brother\/ The Milwaukee County District Attorney\u2019s Office has refiled felony…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":3134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3181,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions\/3181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}