Wisconsin Dem Primary Race for Gov—Explosive Shite Show

Establishment effort to rig Primary race appears doomed, sure to divide Democratic Party 

Commentary

Madison, Wisconsin — Wisconsin Democrat establishment — off-center from grassroots voters — lost their rightest champ, Lt Gov Sara Rodriquez, who suspended her campaign for governor under a smokey ethical and legal cloud.

State Rep. Francesca Hong (D-Madison), a young progressive, appears on the glidepath to the Democrat Party nomination for Wisconsin governor.

So, outgoing Wisconsin Gov Tony Evers will stay out of the race, and leave it to voters three weeks out from Aug 11 Election Day. Right?

Wrong.

Democrats Party bureaucrats and Zionist donors moved hard today for Zionist Milwaukee County Exec David Crowley's reentry into the race, following Sara Rodriquez' exit.

Wisconsin Democrats—Peace v Genocide

Early Friday, Crowley said, yes, to getting back in, setting off a race described in historical terms by Wisconsin political journalist, Bill McCoshen: "This is going to turn into a battle for the soul of the WI Dem party over the next 24 days."

This is going to turn into a battle for the soul of the WI Dem party over the next 24 days.

— Bill McCoshen (@BillMcCoshen11) July 17, 2026

The description is apt and recalls the anti-war movement here of the 1960s when the Wisconsin Peace Movement took over the Wisconsin Democratic Party in 1968, as a grassroots coalition of peace activists and college students propelled Minnesota Sen Eugene McCarthy to a massive upset victory over incumbent President Lyndon Johnson in the April 2 Democratic presidential primary.

Wisconsin Democrats are at a crossroads not seen since 1968 
when the Peace Movement displaced pro-war old guard.

We are at a similar moment recalling the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the demands for peace by Wisconsin's delegates led by Donald Peterson, the Wisconsin state chair.

Those events led to a powerful anti-intervention force in Wisconsin politics lasting some 50 years.

Today, at issue is Genocide that has taken on prominence when establishment Democrats, Sara Rodriquez and David Crowley, earlier this month snubbed a voter forum at the last moment in Oak Creek organized by the Wisconsin Muslim Civic Alliance, after learning questions would include, "Do you agree with the overwhelming consensus among genocide experts that the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide?" 

Reports John Nichols:

Why did Rodriguez and Crowley skip the forum? The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that they opted out 'after learning they would be asked about Israel's actions in Gaza and other controversial topics.' At issue were 'lightning round' questions that asked for yes/no responses to inquiries about, among other things, whether candidates thought the Israeli military assault on Gaza — which has cost the lives of more that 70,000 Palestinian men, women and children — was 'a genocide.'

Five candidates remain now: Frontrunner Francesca Hong, Mandela Barnes, Kelda Roys, Joel Brennan and David Crowley.

It's likely Evers and pro-Genocide Wisconsin Democrats will push to clear the field as much as possible following Crowley's reentry Saturday. 

But noone knows how successful this effort will be this late in the game as animosities linger, and Wisconsin's population remains heavily anti-Genocide.

Writes Matt Henkel: "Roughly 70,000 Wisconsinites have already voted in the August primary. Theres a whole day lag to that number. By the time Crowley gets into the race I’m betting it’ll be 100,000. The math to pull this top-down Dem insider driven switchweroo is not even close to in their favor."

In 2018, when Gov Evers won a plurality with 41 percent of the vote, the Wisconsin Democratic Party Gubernatorial Primary results saw 538,857 total votes cast.

This means roughly 18 percent of the vote has been already cast today, and David Crowley can be expected to have garnered only a scattering.

So, Crowley will not win, and Evers and Party bureaucrats will have alienated and incensed 10,000s of well-organized Francesca Hong voters who already are hostile towards the Democrat establishment.

What is the Wisconsin Democrat Party thinking? They are not thinking, they are following orders to appease an aggressive and indecent Zionist wing.

To find out from whom, run the Sara Rodriquez and David Crowley big donors through Tracking AIPAC and Open Secrets, though arriving at figures is difficult in state elections.

The Democrat-establishment's attempted rigging reeks of desperation, and most observers who have gamed the effort through are scoffing at it.

Wisconsin Wants Innocent to Remain in Prison — Misconduct Looms

The work of wrongful conviction attorney,
Kathleen Zellner will likely lead to the exoneration
of two innocent men. A second-order consequence
of Zellner's work is the exposure of the most
spectacular law enforcement scandal in
Wisconsin history that could ultimately lead
to the downfall of Wisconsin Attorney
General Joshua Kaul (D).

Updated - Madison, Wisconsin — Like a cop's knee crushing life out of a man, the state of Wisconsin is determined to keep an innocent man in prison, continuing a perverse crusade.

The Wisconsin Dept of Justice filed a new brief this week in the post-conviction litigation of Steven Avery, featured in the Emmy-winning Making a Murderer documentary (Newsweek).

The State brief demonstrates Wisconsin 'law enforcement' will do anything to prevent a new trial, or even an evidentiary hearing, that shines public light on the police and prosecutorial misconduct that remains key to keeping Mr. Avery behind bars — and by extension, another wrongfully convicted man, Brendan Dassey.

Avery and Mr. Dassey were convicted for the same 2005 homicide of Teresa Halbach in separate 2007 trials that featured two mutually exclusive versions of the killing presented to juries by a prosecutor with no credibility, a disgraced sex offender — Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz, (1992-2010).

No hearing on the evidence, no new trial, nothing to see here, is the position of the State taken in the brief.

Kratz claimed misconduct that forced him to resign from office in 2010 was committed because of uncontrollable impulses he suffered relating to medical conditions that include narcissistic personality disorder, multiple addictions and his assessment that he is a "dick." [This is not hyperbole.] Kratz resigned his suspended law license after a complaint by the editor of this website, Mal Contends, that accused him of fraud, (State Bar of Wisconsin).

Kratz has not publicly commented on when his medical condition began, and whether he was suffering from his mental illnesses during the Avery and Dassey prosecutions.

The State stands by Ken Kratz' prosecutions.

The case is State v. Steven A. Avery, Appeal Number 2017AP002288.

Avery's deadline for a reply is June 11.

After the much criticized investigations of Avery and Dassey, the fraud perpetrated upon two small-town juries, the post-conviction misconduct of the State and an obstinate county court abusing its discretion stand out as well (see Work with KZ).

Avery's attorney, Kathleen Zellner, commented on the development of the State brief to Kelly Wynne in Newsweek:

'Mr. Avery is not concerned about the State's brief. It demonstrates a poor grasp of the facts, uses boilerplate language and tries to erect every procedural hurdle to obscure the real issue that Mr. Avery suffered numerous constitutional violations that should result in an evidentiary hearing and/or a new trial,' Zellner explained via email.

The State will not address its own misconduct in post-conviction litigation and virtually ignores the many claims of law enforcement misconduct that the state has demonstrably committed.

State’s brief in Avery largely deflects from merits of claims by instead arguing procedural obstacles. Brief mentions “procedurally barred” 24 times, “insufficiently pled” 24 times & “forfeited” 12 times, elevating form over substance.#MakingAMurderer

— Jerome Buting (@JButing) May 29, 2020

In a March 2019 legal filing, the DoJ argues procedural objections, as well, including Avery's charges of bad-faith evidence destruction, deceit, concealment and deception, all of which present Due Process questions, (Steven Avery legal filings; #Work with KZ, WBAY, WLUK).

This May 2020 brief continues the State strategy of avoiding mention of charged state lawlessness in appellate court, eschewing Avery's charges that the Calumet County Sheriff's Office secretly transferred evidence, the remains of a murder victim, Teresa Halbach, to private custody in 2011, in violation of state statutes that govern preservation of physical evidence collected; among other allegations.

Commenting on the State's March 29, 2019 legal filing in Newsweek Magazine, Avery's post-conviction attorney, Kathleen Zellner, said:

'Of course the State cannot address the merits of Avery's claim, because it is blatantly guilty of evidence destruction. Its charade continues without the slightest inclination to discover the truth. Significantly, one of the culprits in the whole sad scenario authored the State's Response. Unfortunately, the citizens of Wisconsin are the recipients of this mockery of justice.'

Zellner’s refers to the DoJ litigation team and Thomas Fallon, who helped oversee the decision to return the alleged human bones to the Halbach family, a scheme in direct contravention of Wisconsin statute.

So, in sum Wisconsin law enforcement has engaged in frame-up schemes, lies, misconduct and a stubborn determination to avoid even discussion of these matters in open court, as two innocent men suffer behind bars.

Steven Avery Attorney Hits Wisconsin Judge for Constructing Adverse Ruling Against Facts and Law — Awaiting Corrupt Ruling

Madison, Wisconsin — The attorney representing Steven Avery offered a harsh opinion this morning that a presiding circuit court judge is constructing an adverse ruling in an effort to preserve what attorney argues is the wrongful conviction of Avery, featured in the Emmy-winning Making a Murderer.

Kathleen Zellner writes in Twitter: "The lower court is facing the impossible task of constructing an adverse ruling that will not be reversed by the higher court. The facts and clearcut laws will be the wrecking ball of this house of cards. Time to do the right thing for Steven Avery."

The lower court is facing the impossible task of constructing an adverse ruling that will not be reversed by the higher court. The facts & clearcut laws will be the wrecking ball of this house of cards. Time to do the right thing for Steven Avery. #JusticeNow #MakingAMurderer https://t.co/QpEoWrt6vY

— Kathleen Zellner (@ZellnerLaw) May 30, 2019

Advocates for Steven Avery are growing angry at what appears to be the corrupt effort by Sheboygan County Judge Angela W. Sutkiewicz (substituting) who apparently reached a result adverse to Steven Avery in State v. Steven A. Avery, Appeal Number 2017AP002288 long ago.

But Sutkiewicz works backwards. Result first, then draft an order and opinion to support the position of corrupt Wisconsin law enforcement, an opinion that will, law enforcement and Sutkiewicz believe, prevail in appellate court for a time — a delaying tactic.

The prosecution led by Attorney General Joshua Kaul (D) is employing the legal services of corrupt state attorneys including Mark Williams, Asst Attorney General and Special Prosecutor Thomas J. Fallon, and Special Prosecutor Norman Gahn.

Fallon and Gahn do not challenge the oft-repeated fact that the two corrupt jurists not only worked together to illegally destroy evidence, the two DoJ attorneys now write legal filings opposing Zellner's March 11 call for a reversal or new trial in post-conviction litigation.

Before Zellner won her motion for a remand (sending back) the case to circuit court, Zellner argued in her Feb. 1 legal filing:

The [State] ... conveys an attitude of impunity for its past actions of withholding exculpatory evidence and its current action of continuing the concealment of its destruction of potentially exculpatory or useful evidence. ...

Kahl, Ken Kratz, Mark Williams, Thomas J. Fallon, and Norman Gahn. This is Wisconsin law enforcement. And Angela W. Sutkiewicz is the Wisconsin judiciary.

Fallon and Gahn argue that the evidence they help destroy was "inexplicably released" in their  March 29, 2019 legal filing, (p 13).

In its late-March legal filing, the DoJ argues procedural objections to Avery's charges of bad-faith evidence destruction, deceit, concealment and deception, all of which present Due Process questions, (Steven Avery legal filings; #Work with KZ, WBAY, WLUK).

The deception of the DoJ attorneys veered into another spectacle in February when state attorney Mark Williams left a Feb errant voicemail message to Thomas Fallon on Zellner's phone, plotting how to mislead Zellner.

Making a Murderer's Steven Avery Waits on Ruling, Hearing, Anything from Corrupt Circuit Judge

Update: Sheboygan County Judge Angela W. Sutkiewicz (substituting) reached a result adverse to Steven Avery in State v. Steven A. Avery, Appeal Number 2017AP002288 long ago. But Sutkiewicz works backwards. Result first, then draft an order and opinion to support the position of corrupt Wisconsin law enforcement, an opinion that will fly in appellate court to some extent.

Sutkiewicz is working on drafting and an adverse ruling that will sabotage and work against the wrongfully convicted Steven Avery.

It's how it is here.

From Kathleen Zellner, wrongful conviction attorney:

The lower court is facing the impossible task of constructing an adverse ruling that will not be reversed by the higher court. The facts & clearcut laws will be the wrecking ball of this house of cards. Time to do the right thing for Steven Avery. #JusticeNow #MakingAMurderer https://t.co/QpEoWrt6vY

— Kathleen Zellner (@ZellnerLaw) May 30, 2019

The dreadful Kafka could not have imagined Wisconsin law enforcement and Judge Angela W. Sutkiewicz.

Madison, Wisconsin — Wrongfully convicted Steven Avery, is awaiting a state circuit court ruling on his motion for an evidentiary hearing, and a new trial.

A website, Work with KZ, (for Avery's wrongful conviction attorney, Kathleen Zellner) maintains the site for the press, public and those interested in this particular state crucifixion.

The post, Awaiting ruling from Circuit Court, is reproduced below:

Awaiting ruling from Circuit Court

The Court has 90 days from the date the motion was filed with the Circuit Court if the response and reply are NOT considered. (June 9 - or the 10th, since the 9th is a Sunday).

Kathleen's most recent filing implies that the Court did not ask for the State's response.  We will have to wait for the Court to say whether or not the response and subsequent reply will be considered.

IF THE RESPONSE AND REPLY ARE ACCEPTED, the 90 days starts from the date Kathleen filed her reply, which would put the due date at July 10.

This is what we expect:

If the court grants the motion and says Steven gets an evidentiary hearing, the State cannot appeal that decision.

 If they have a hearing and the resulting order is for a new trial to happen, the State will appeal that decision.

If they have a hearing and the resulting order is that a new trial is denied, Kathleen will add it to her appellant brief.

If the court denies the motion and says Steven cannot have an evidentiary hearing, Kathleen will add it to her appellant brief.

So, either way, it's going back to the Court of Appeals.

Here's the info on responses FYI:

Can the State respond?

1. The court can deny the motion without a response from the State.

2. The court can grant a hearing without a response from the State.

3. The court cannot grant the motion without a response from the State. (If the judge asks the State for a response, that means she's probably considering granting the motion.)

4. The State can respond regardless but the judge doesn't have to consider their response if she didn't ask for one.

* If she asks the State for a response, she will dictate how long they have to respond.

For those of you who are interested, here is the Wisconsin Statute that says what the required procedure is for the court: Click Here.

Wrongfully Convicted in Wisconsin — Waiting for Judge Angela Sutkiewicz' Adverse Ruling and Opinion

Madison, Wisconsin — Some things in Wisconsin seem impervious to change.

One of the worst enduring features is corrupt law enforcement exemplified by disgraced ex-district attorney Ken Kratz (Calumet County), Special Prosecutor Mark Williams (Dept of Justice), Attorney General Joshua Kaul, and far too many more to list.

The bad work of Kratz is being defended by Williams, Kaul and others for whom facts, transparency and truth are to be opposed, lest Wisconsin law enforcement is exposed more prominently as indecent, capable and inclined to railroad the innocent.

Williams is a class-A scumbag, revealed by private investigator Ira Robins to have hidden evidence, and lied repeatedly to the court in a frame-up of Lawrencia (Laurie) Bembenek.

It makes sense in the amoral mind of Kaul that in protecting another frame-up Williams would be called upon as a special prosecutor in State of Wisconsin vs. Steven A. Avery, (Manitowoc County Case Number 2005CF000381).

Just three months ago, the wrongfully convicted Steven Avery won an important state appellate court ruling.

Wrote Avery's attorney, Kathleen Zellner:

Avery Update: We Won!!!!!! Back to the circuit court. #TruthWins @llifeafterten @ZellnerLaw @TManitowoc @michellemalkin #MakingaMurderer

— Kathleen Zellner (@ZellnerLaw) February 25, 2019

But Zellner and Avery's advocates know the courtroom of  Judge Angela Sutkiewicz will bring an adverse ruling. Sutkiewicz is as corrupt as any Wisconsin law enforcement personnel, so the case will be won in appellate court.

The problem is Sutkiewicz is taking her sweet time and has not even scheduled hearings, per the Feb 25, 2019 appellate court order mandating "any proceedings necessary to address [Avery's] claims," which the State fails to address in argument on the merits.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DoJ) does not address the merits of Steven Avery's characterization of Wisconsin's post-conviction conduct  — DoJ bad faith, evidence destruction and suppression — because the DoJ cannot credibly do so.

So, as Summer approaches, we wait and wait. Writes Zellner:

We would love to give you an Avery update but that is only possible if the everyone does their job...just sayin' 17 days and counting...#MakingAMurderer2 #FolliwtheRules

— Kathleen Zellner (@ZellnerLaw) May 14, 2019

Wisconsin Attorney General Joshua Kaul Is Promoting a 'Mockery of Justice' in Making a Murderer Case

Above, attorney Kathleen Zellner is shown walking with
innocent people for whom she and her legal team have won
exoneration and freedom. The world-renown attorney
faces perhaps her biggest challenge yet against corrupt
Wisconsin law enforcement, and a state judiciary hostile
to civil rights and stacked with corrupt jurists biased in favor
of police. Zellner has won a worldwide following of
admirers who object to the imprisonment of people known
to be innocent.

Innocent awaits ruling from corrupt county circuit court

Madison, Wisconsin — A wrongfully convicted man, Steven Avery, is awaiting a state circuit court ruling on his motion for an evidentiary hearing, and a new trial.

The Feb 25, 2019 appellate court order mandating "any proceedings necessary to address [Avery's] claims" points to a hearing after briefing at the circuit court to which the case had been sent back.

No such proceedings have been ordered to this date.
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Steven Avery's story is abject demonstration of the determination of law enforcement to work against innocents, and the incapacity of Wisconsin society — corporate media, police, courts, bureaucracies, elected representatives and many citizens — to even acknowledge the perverse efforts of the Wisconsin Dept of Justice (DoJ) now led by Attorney General Joshua Kaul (D), to keep innocents in prison.

Kaul is working to shield criminal acts committed by Wisconsin law enforcement by blocking examination of evidence, opposing all court hearings, and promoting "finality in criminal litigation" so that police and prosecutorial misconduct are protected, and the innocent remain imprisoned, (p.4. State's Response to Defendant's Motion for New Trial Based on Alleged Youngblood Violation, March 29, 2019).

Steven Avery is featured in the Emmy-winning documentary, Making a Murderer.

Kaul has the discretion to accede to Avery's requests for transparency and open examination of evidence and state misconduct.

The case is now before Sheboygan County Judge Angela W. Sutkiewicz who is expected to issue a ruling within weeks on Avery's legal motions. 

Sutkiewicz is a corrupt judge who does the work of police and prosecutors against people and the cause of truth.

Advocates for truth in the Avery case expect their efforts to be won in state appellate court after an anticipated adverse ruling by Sutkiewicz.

The post-conviction ligation is State v. Steven A. Avery, Appeal Number 2017AP002288, now before Manitowoc County Circuit Court, substituted by Sutkiewicz.

State of Wisconsin Criminality 

In its late-March legal filing, the DoJ argues only procedural objections to Avery's charges of bad-faith state evidence destruction, deceit, concealment and deception, all of which present Due Process questions, (Steven Avery legal filings; #Work with KZ, WBAY, WLUK).

Continuing its strategy of avoiding mention of charged state criminality and lawlessness in litigation, the State's conduct is striking in its avoidance of the merits of Avery's charges that the Calumet County Sheriff's Office secretly transferred evidence, the remains of a murder victim, Teresa Halbach, to private custody in 2011, in violation of state statutes that govern preservation of physical evidence collected; among other allegations.

Commenting on the State's March 29, 2019 legal filing in Newsweek Magazine, Avery's post-conviction attorney, Kathleen Zellner, said:

Wisconsin Dept of Justice is painting itself into a corner
in its effort to keep innocent men in prison. "The State
is thumbing its nose at the appellate court once again,"
wrongful conviction attorney Kathleen Zellner told Newsweek
on April 2. "That court specifically ordered that the merits of the
alleged bone destruction be addressed. Rather than follow the
court's directive, the State has constructed a convoluted
procedural argument that defies logic or precedent."

'Of course the State cannot address the merits of Avery's claim, because it is blatantly guilty of evidence destruction. Its charade continues without the slightest inclination to discover the truth. Significantly, one of the culprits in the whole sad scenario authored the State's Response. Unfortunately, the citizens of Wisconsin are the recipients of this mockery of justice.'

Zellner refers to the DoJ post-conviction litigation team and Thomas Fallon, who helped oversee the decision to return the alleged human bones to the Halbach family. Fallon wrote the state’s response, and is defending his own misconduct.

The post-conviction ligation is State v. Steven A. Avery, (Appeal Number 2017AP002288), now before Manitowoc County Circuit Court.

Before Zellner won her motion for a remand (sending back) the case to Circuit Court, Zellner and other advocates for the innocent Avery argued in her Feb. 1 legal filing:

The entire #CorruptiwocCounty case against Steven was based on a house of cards composed of lies, deceptions, fabrications, planting, hiding & destroying of evidence, smoke, mirrors, & the distractions of drugged out narcissistic ex-DA. No wonder they can't keep story straight. https://t.co/KYN3BQ22sK

— Lloyd R Bass II (@lloydbassII) April 13, 2019

Steven Avery Supporters Want Sheboygan County Judge off Case — Cite Conflicts, Bias

Updated - Madison, Wisconsin—Supporters of the wrongfully convicted Steven Avery want Sheboygan County Judge Angela W. Sutkiewicz to step aside from the case on which she has a conflict of interest, and is operating in apparent violation of the Wisconsin Code of Judicial Ethics.

Concern that Sutkiewicz is hostile to Avery's post-conviction litigation has caused supporters to begin a petition last weekend, that quickly garnered over 10,000 signatures calling for Sutkiewicz to remove herself from the case, and asking for support from Gov Tony Evers (D).

Judge Sutkiewicz began hearing Avery's post-conviction litigation in 2013 after Manitowoc County Judge Patrick Willis retired in 2012.

In Making a Murderer, season 2, (episode two, 42:51-minute mark), Avery said he "had a problem with [Sutkiewicz] before," recounting that his post-conviction litigation was heard by Sutkiewicz in 2013.

Sutkiewicz was simultaneously presiding over Avery's post-conviction litigation and murder victim's Teresa Halbach's wrongful death suit against Avery in 2013 (Manitowoc County Case Number 2006CV000150 Teresa M Halbach Estate et al vs. Steven A Avery et al.).

Notes Avery: "I thought maybe it, [post-conviction litigation], would go to a different judge, she got them both."

Sutkiewicz held open the Halbach-Avery civil litigation for some 15 months after the Halbach estate requested a voluntary dismissal in November 2013, in an apparent bid to goad the plaintiff into seeking settlement monies from Avery.

In 2015, Avery sent a letter to the court inquiring about the status of the civil suit following the Notice of Motion for (Plaintiff's) Voluntary Dismissal hearing of November 21, 2013. Avery also appealed his post-conviction litigation to state appellate court complaining about Sutkiewicz' conduct in both cases. Sutkiewicz then dismissed the civil litigation in April 2015.

The Wisconsin Code of Judicial Conduct demands that judges "shall act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary" (SCR 60.03 A judge shall avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety in all of the judge's activities).

That Sutkiewicz acted in contravention of the Code of Judicial Conduct appears apparent.

Additionally, the Code of Judicial Conduct mandates:

SCR 60.03 (2)  A judge may not allow family, social, political or other relationships to influence the judge's judicial conduct or judgment.  A judge may not lend the prestige of judicial office to advance the private interests of the judge or of others or convey or permit others to convey the impression that they are in a special position to influence the judge. ...

Sutkiewicz' conduct in which she heard two Avery cases, Sutkiewicz acted in accordance with her oft-stated wish that courts act as victims' advocates, to the point of compromising the rights of the accused and the convicted.

Next step: Judge Sutkiewicz will hold a hearing in late April in which numerous law enforcement and prosecutors suspected of misconduct will be compelled to testify in a public hearing (Mal Contends, Ferak).

Sutkiewicz is under fire and very public scrutiny.

Notes John Ferak in an interview with Avery post-conviction attorney, Kathleen Zellner:

2. What can people expect to happen in Steven's case over the next 60 to 90 days?

Zellner response: In the next 60 days the circuit court will rule on whether Mr. Avery's conviction should be reversed. The judge, Angela Sutkiewicz, should recuse herself from the case since she has a blatant conflict of interest. She has presided over the Halbach wrongful death case and Avery's post-conviction case. This is totally improper and she should recuse herself as Judge (Willis) did. If she will not, Avery fully expects her to rule against him as she has on every issue to date. She should be holding an evidentiary hearing but it is doubtful she will. The appellate court will reverse her for all of her blatant errors.

Sutkiewicz substitutes her affinity for prosecutors in place of neutral adjudication. To be accused means you have no rights, to be convicted means law enforcement can do no wrong, in what passes for Sutkiewicz' legal mind in Wisconsin.

In 2017, Sutkiewicz rejected Steven Avery's request for a trial made through his post-conviction attorney, Kathleen Zellner.

Sutkiewicz issued her ruling and opinion without ordering and conducting an evidentiary hearing on Kathleen Zellner's 1,200-page post-conviction motion, replete with expert forensic testimony and analyses.

"The judge criticized the defense conclusions as 'speculative' and based on 'interim opinions' by experts," notes Heavy. com.

Few observers believe Sutkiewicz is equipped with the competence to adjudge world-renown forensic scientific evidence.

On June 14, 2018, Avery through Zellner filed a motion for judicial substitution of Sutkiewicz, (Fox-11, Digital). The state objected to the motion for a new judge (Fox-11 News).
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"When a judge determines that, for any reason, he or she cannot, or it appears he or she cannot, act in an impartial manner," a judge must disqualify herself, reads Wisconsin statute,757.19.

Asks a UK Avery supporter, "why is Sutkiewicz still on this case?"

Impact Tremors Hint at Coming Earthquake to Shake Wisconsin Law Enforcement and Legal System

I live on Avery Road, do you? Supporters of Steven Avery
and Brendan Dassey are legion in the UK.

Madison, Wisconsin — Would you help imprison a man whom you know to be innocent?

It's a question implicit in the Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey affair in Wisconsin, featured in Making a Murderer.

The answer is slowly corroding the pillars of Wisconsin law enforcement, because the law and many people across the world demand that no innocent be convicted and imprisoned.

The latest developments saw the Wisconsin Dept of Justice, led by Attorney General Josh Kaul, urge Avery to drop post-conviction litigation after hiding and then lying to the defendant and presiding state appellate Court about exculpatory evidence. Kaul has conducted post-conviction litigation deceitfully and writing legal filing that are in a word, snotty.

The Court was not amused and ordered Avery's case sent back to circuit court on Feb. 25, 2019 where effectively Wisconsin law enforcement will be on trial.

The political culture as a whole cannot perceive it yet, but the the foundations of the Wisconsin legal system are shaking.

SA’s DREAM OF FREEDOM is a NEW REALITY as COA lets us reveal all the State’s BAD FAITH, DESTRUCTION & SUPPRESSION of evidence-misdeeds cannot be undone. State’s old way of doing business is OVER. #WreckingCrew #WorkWithKZ #TruthWins #Losers=Guilters #KratzRatzShipSinks

— Kathleen Zellner (@ZellnerLaw) February 26, 2019

Steven Avery's Win Gets Critical Court Hearing; But State Law Enforcement Conduct May End Up on Trial

Wisc Court of Appeals ruling takes under-stated jab at DoJ

Update: Anticipated County Circuit hearing was never ordered.

Update: See John Ferak's latest for updates on legal developments calling into question broad swaths of Wisconsin law enforcement.

Updated - Madison, Wisconsin — Kathleen Zellner represents the wrongfully convicted Steven Avery featured in the Making a Murderer docuseries.

Zellner filed an explosive motion Jan 24, 2019 seeking a hearing in circuit court because the Calumet County Sheriff's Office secretly transferred evidence, purported to be the remains of a murder victim, Teresa Halbach, to private custody in 2011, in violation of state statutes that govern preservation of physical evidence collected, subject to criminal investigations.

Yesterday, Zellner won her hearing.

The evidence Zellner and advocates have complied implicates multiple levels of Wisconsin law enforcement, widely regarded as guilty of an ad-hoc scheme to frame Steven Avery in 2005.

Wisconsin law enforcement has a partner — the Wisconsin Dept of Justice working to cover up crimes of law enforcement, and avoid the hearing ordered yesterday.

The DoJ has not performed ethically in post-conviction litigation. In fact, DoJ has been demonstrated as unethically scheming to mislead in litigation.

There is a significant point made in the Feb 25 Court of Appeals ruling that speaks to the DoJ's conduct.

Reads the Feb. 25 Court ruling in part:

The State’s objection does not address the merits of Avery’s claimed statutory and constitutional violations, and it has not responded to Avery’s supplemental filings alleging the possible destruction of evidentiary items which, it appears, the parties previously agreed to preserve.

The State suggests that the appeal is languishing and that if Avery wishes to pursue new claims outside the scope of the WIS. STAT. § 974.06 postconviction orders presently on appeal, he could dismiss the pending appeal, or wait until its conclusion to file his new claims. As to the former, Avery understandably disagrees, aware that dismissing this appeal will preclude review of the underlying orders entered to date. (emphasis added)

The State previously suggested to the Court in its Dec. 28, 2018 filing that Avery and Zellner drop their appeal without the state ever having "admitted or disclosed that it had given the bones back to the Halbach family in 2011 without notice to Mr. Avery or his counsel," notes Kathleen Zellner her Feb. 1 Reply filing.

The appellate court took Zellner's point.

Writes Zellner in part:

The State's response conveys an attitude of impunity for its past actions of withholding exculpatory evidence and its current action of continuing the concealment of its destruction of potentially exculpatory or useful evidence. ...

The State wants this Court to overlook the undisputed fact that 2 weeks ago, on December 28, 2018, when it filed its response to Mr. Avery's request for new DNA testing of the bones from the Manitowoc Gravel Pit, it never once admitted or disclosed that it had given the bones back to the Halbach family in 2011 without notice to Mr. Avery or his counsel. (Plaintiff-Respondent's Response in Opposition to the Petition to Stay the Appeal and Remand this Case to the circuit court, December 28, 2018, pp. 1-8). Instead, the State carried on its charade of concealment by claiming that Mr. Avery could voluntarily dismiss his pending appeal. (pp. 1,2)

So, the Court of Appeals agreed with Zellner.

Now, in layman’s terms the state has "to explain why they gave to Halbach family quarry bones that KK [ex-Distict Attorney Ken Kratz] claimed at trial were non-human. KZ [Kathleen Zellner] wants to prove with new DNA technique they were TH [Teresa Halbach], as further proof she wasn’t burned at SA’s [Steven Avery's] property," (Twitter, Atty Jerome Buting, former trial counsel to Steven Avery, uninvolved in post-conviction litigation).
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The Wisconsin Department of Justice does not want to appear in Sheboygan County Court, the jurisdiction to which the case has been sent back, to explain in a public hearing why the state violated state law in giving likely exculpatory evidence to the family of a murder victim.

But the DoJ has other trouble.

On Feb. 13, 2019, Mark Williams and Thomas J. Fallon, attorneys with the Wisconsin Dept of Justice, were caught red-handed continuing their pattern of lying and obstruction.

Red-handed as in DoJ co-counsel Williams attempted to phone DoJ Asst Attorney General Fallon on Feb. 13, and instead accidentally phoned Steven Avery's post-conviction attorney, Kathleen Zellner, and left a voicemail.

In Williams' voicemail message, Williams contradicted the DoJ's numerous assurances made since 2016 about the status of critical pelvic bones that Zellner wants to test with advanced DNA analyses.

Listen to the voicemail because it appears more deceitful and conniving than the transcription.

The voicemail is transcribed below:

Hi, Tom. This is Mark Williams. Um, I'll send you an email later today, but I don't think we should do anything or respond to her [Zellner] at all until tomorrow, uh, when we look into the bag and-and see exactly the pelvic bones are in there or not. Um, so I-I would not respond, uh, until we look into the bag, uh, tomorrow morning and then we can talk about it, uh, before we send a response. Thanks a lot. Bye.

The state has assured atty Zellner and the Court since 2016, that the state has possession of the pelvic bone, and now atty Williams is caught saying, he doesn't know.

There has been no explanation made public by the DoJ why they were telling the Court and Zellner one thing, and secretly telling each other the opposite.

Zellner did not hide her contempt for the DoJ's conduct in her filing of Feb. 13.

As the record of misconduct of police and prosecutors mounts, advocates are optimistic and Kathleen Zellner keeps pleading her case in legal filings.

SA’s DREAM OF FREEDOM is a NEW REALITY as COA lets us reveal all the State’s BAD FAITH, DESTRUCTION & SUPPRESSION of evidence-misdeeds cannot be undone. State’s old way of doing business is OVER. #WreckingCrew #WorkWithKZ #TruthWins #Losers=Guilters #KratzRatzShipSinks

— Kathleen Zellner (@ZellnerLaw) February 26, 2019

Concludes attorney Jerome Buting, commenting on the appellate court's ruling:

It’s smack-down of State’s snotty, disingenuous suggestion that KZ could just dismiss this appeal. “Avery understandably disagrees, aware that dismissal of this appeal will preclude review of the underlying orders entered to date.” This protects existing appeal.#MakingaMurderer https://t.co/IPpTk1WXDA

— Jerome Buting (@JButing) February 26, 2019

Making a Murderer Defendant Gets Legal Win — Panel Sends Avery Case to Circuit Court to Hear Due Process and Evidence-Destruction Claims

Kathleen Zellner, depicted above in image, has shown
beyond serious dispute Wisconsin has framed, destroyed
exculpatory evidence, and secretly broken state laws, all
to convict and protect the convictions of two innocent
men. Zellner won a significant legal victory in
Wisconsin appellate court. Image from
innocence supporter, JamesBond 007, UK.

Updated Madison, Wisconsin — In a major victory for wrongfully convicted Steven Avery, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, (District Two), has sent his case back to circuit court to pursue post conviction litigation pleading violations of due process and the state law mandating preservation of evidence in criminal cases.

The order means Avery can now appear through his attorney in a public forum to argue proven and willful violations of state law and the Due Process Clause by Wisconsin law enforcement should result in the vacating of his conviction or the reversal of his conviction.

We are going to have an extraordinary number of constitutional violations when we are done. The COA is letting us create an avalanche of evidence in this record. Higher courts rule. #TruthWins @michellemalkin @EFMoriarty #MakingaMurderer #WorkWithKZ

— Kathleen Zellner (@ZellnerLaw) February 25, 2019

The case is: State of Wisconsin v. Steven Avery, Case No: 2017AP2288.

Avery will plead his case in a hearing, but the state of Wiscosnin, law enforcement and especially the Dept of Justice will be on trial.

SA’s DREAM OF FREEDOM is a NEW REALITY as COA lets us reveal all the State’s BAD FAITH, DESTRUCTION & SUPPRESSION of evidence-misdeeds cannot be undone. State’s old way of doing business is OVER. #WreckingCrew #WorkWithKZ #TruthWins #Losers=Guilters #KratzRatzShipSinks

— Kathleen Zellner (@ZellnerLaw) February 26, 2019

Avery through his attorney, Kathleen Zellner, has 40 days to present to the Circuit Court grounds for relief in an opening brief.

This development of remanding or sending back the case to Circuit Court has been opposed by the Wisconsin Dept of Justice which declined to argue Due Process violation and the destruction of the murder victim's bones by Wisconsin, but used procedural delaying tactics.

With this ruling, the State is forced into open court.

Reports Kelly Wynne in Newsweek: Zellner told Newsweek it's a big win for Avery. "The appellate court granted our motion to supplement the record with the evidence the bones were destroyed," she explained. "The case is being remanded back to the circuit court to conduct proceedings, which can include a hearing. The circuit court can grant a new trial, or if not, back to appellate court who can reverse the conviction and/or grant a new trial. Either way, the State opposed this motion and lost. This evidence has the potential to undo the whole case, so it is a big win."

Advocates and legal counsel cheered the development late Monday afternoon:

Avery Update: We Won!!!!!! Back to the circuit court. #TruthWins @llifeafterten @ZellnerLaw @TManitowoc @michellemalkin #MakingaMurderer

— Kathleen Zellner (@ZellnerLaw) February 25, 2019

In late January, attorney Jerome Buting, Avery's 2005 co-counsel uninvolved in the post-conviction litigation, noted:

In layman’s terms: State wants to avoid a hearing on this where they have to explain why they gave to Halbach family quarry bones that KK claimed at trial were non-human. KZ wants to prove with new DNA technique they were TH, as further proof she wasn’t burned at SA’s property. https://t.co/kXzjULsgFm

— Jerome Buting (@JButing) January 31, 2019

Avery along with Brendan Dassey are widely acknowledged to be innocent of the murder of Teresa Halback in 2005.

Yet, both men face a hostile Wisconsin Dept of Justice working to cover up crimes of Wisconsin law enforcement.

A Feb. admission by the state that it destroyed evidence by giving bones to the family of the murder victim is significant because, as Zellner told Newsweek, "This admission proves these bone fragments were returned to the family and it is undisputed there was no notice given to Steven Avery or his attorneys and that violates Wisconsin law, ... When any of these bones were returned to the Halbach’s Wisconsin State law and due process were violated. The State has confirmed returning many of the bones to the Halbach’s so the court should grant our motion to stay and remand."

Lawyers at the Wisconsin Department of Justice do not want to appear in open Sheboygan County Court, the jurisdiction to which the case is remanded or sent back, and explain why the state violated state law in giving likely exculpatory evidence to the family of a murder victim.

Updates coming as breaking story develops.

Social Media Effort Focuses Press Attention on Wisconsin Dept of Justice Misconduct, Following DoJ Scandals Blacked-out

In Wisconsin, Cops Are the Criminals, and Most Corporate Press Is Cowed

Updated - Madison, Wisconsin — What does one do when crooks and liars conspire to convict, imprison and cover-up crimes against innocent citizens?

Alert the media.

Calling Wisconsin cops isn't going to help as law enforcement here resembles a disorganized, sprawling crime family, protected by the cult of the police.

The cult is everything. Innocent people: Frame them, assassinate their characters, imprison them. And never publicly criticize a fellow cop, no matter what.

Amelia McDonell-Parry's feature-length piece in Rolling Stone updates a story in Wisconsin.

Cops in multiple law enforcement jurisdictions framed an innocent man for a 1985 attempted murder and rape, (exonerated after 18 years in prison), were exposed, then framed the same man (and a 16-year-old Brendan Dassey) for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach, just as Steven Avery was deposing cops for a $36-million civil rights suit for his first wrongful conviction, and were exposed again.

Steven Avery has spent over half of his 56 years in prison, wrongfully convicted of twice, framed, and featured in Making a Murderer that has finally brought world-wide attention on the Wisconsin human rights problem.

Now, in 2019 the Wisconsin Dept of Justice has been caught in a new and dirtier cover-up.

Advocates last night staged a Twitter storm on social media, #WakeUpWisconsin, to draw attention to what the Wisconsin Dept of Justice is doing, and what most of the state press is not doing: Reporting on the spectacle of criminality committed by all manner of law enforcement.

Innocence advocates made the DoJ cover-up the number one story in the United Kingdom, (at right) and trended world-wide.

Some Wisconsin media outlets follow the story: WBAY-TV, WGBA-TV.

But most of the press here black-outs major developments, in accordance with the cult of law enforcement — the authorities, the state, the sovereign, the collection of ass-hats led by Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul (D), carrying on the cover-up tradition begun by Kaul's mother, the late Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager (D), (2002-2007), in a sick family tradition.

McDonell-Parry's piece in Rolling Stone updates this story as post-conviction litigation has taken a bizarre-even-for-Wisconsin twist: The DoJ is misleading the state appellate court and Avery's counsel, in an attempt to stop a circuit (County) court from examining why the state destroyed evidence, in violation of Wisconsin state statute and Avery's Constitutional rights.

Writes McDonell-Parry:

Attorney Kathleen Zellner has filed a new letter with the Wisconsin Court of Appeals on behalf of her client, Steven Avery, accusing the Attorney General’s Office of 'trying to deceive' her and the Court about the status of key forensic evidence in the Making a Murderer case. Zellner’s letter, submitted on February 13th, is actually her second letter to the court in as many days; both letters supplement a January 24th motion that accused prosecutors of violating state law and Avery’s constitutional rights by destroying evidence. Zellner tells Rolling Stone that she has since learned that a key piece of evidence — suspected human pelvic bone fragments, which could exonerate her client — may have been destroyed as well. And, she says, prosecutors are 'obstructing' her efforts to find out.

According to a newly discovered police report and updated evidence control ledgers, on September 20th, 2011, 'human bone' fragments recovered during the investigation were removed from the Calumet County Sheriff’s Department’s evidence control unit. They were transferred to a local funeral home, which then 'returned' the bones to the family of murder victim Teresa Halbach.

According to an affidavit from Avery’s former appellate attorney Suzanne Hagopian, the State never informed defense counsel of its intention to effectively 'destroy' key case evidence by giving it to the victim’s family. Wisconsin law requires law enforcement to preserve 'any biological material' and 'physical evidence' until the convicted defendant has been discharged from prison. Avery is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole, and the Wisconsin statute protects his right to retain evidence that 'may reasonably be used to incriminate or exculpate any person' in Halbach’s murder.

On Feb. 13, 2019, Mark Williams and Thomas J. Fallon, attorneys with the Wisconsin Dept of Justice, were caught red-handed continuing their pattern of lying and obstruction.

Red-handed as in DoJ co-counsel Williams attempted to phone DoJ Asst Attorney General Fallon on Feb. 13, and instead accidentally phoned Steven Avery's post-conviction attorney, Kathleen Zellner, and left a voicemail.

In Williams' voicemail message, Williams contradicted the DoJ's numerous assurances made since 2016 about the status of critical pelvic bones that Zellner wants to test with advanced DNA analyses.

Listen to the voicemail because it appears more deceitful and conniving than the transcription.

The voicemail is transcribed below:

Hi, Tom. This is Mark Williams. Um, I'll send you an email later today, but I don't think we should do anything or respond to her [Zellner] at all until tomorrow, uh, when we look into the bag and-and see exactly the pelvic bones are in there or not. Um, so I-I would not respond, uh, until we look into the bag, uh, tomorrow morning and then we can talk about it, uh, before we send a response. Thanks a lot. Bye.

The state has assured Counsel and the Court since 2016, that the state has possession of the pelvic bone, and now atty Williams is caught saying, he doesn't know.

There is speculation that all this is too much even for Wisconsin.

But noone really knows.

One thing is certain: #WakeUpWisconsin is keeping this story on social media, hell or high water.

Wisconsin Is a State of Men and Women Because the Rule of Law Is Perishing; Attorney General Josh Kaul Is Complicit and Insidious

The Wisconsin Department of Justice continues to betray
and destroy as the world watches the degradation in
post-conviction litigation against Steven Avery.
Attorney General Josh Kaul (D) is on point, in
defending the work of disgraced ex-DA, Ken Kratz,
and the criminality of Wisconsin law enforcement.

The Whole World Is Watching Wisconsin -

Post-conviction attorney, Kathleen Zellner, will be offering a live question-and-answer session on Twitter, Feb. 12 at Noon.

Update: In response to questions from our friends overseas: Targeting people is in itself tyrannical.

Wisconsin does not have a state Grand Jury system. But when someone is transformed from a person of interest to a "target" in a probe or a grand jury (in other states) or a federal investigation, formal procedures and notifications kick in to protect the soon-to-be-accused.

Not so in the Avery case. Law enforcement targeted Steven Avery and then set about to plant evidence, manipulate and manufacture evidence, even destroying exculpatory evidence.

This is tyrannical and despotic — the opposite of what American criminal justice is supposed to be. And this is what Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is defending, in an unethical fashion to boot.
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Madison, Wisconsin — "Despotism is a plan alone, without law and without rule, leading all its will and caprices," intoned the satirist, poet, and social contract theorist, Montesquieu. "To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them."

In opposing post-conviction litigation against the wrongful convicted Steven Avery, (Making Murderer), Wisconsin Attorney Josh Kaul (D) is offering polemics, pointless antagonism and defense of apparent criminality and willful violation of constitutional rights and state law committed by Wisconsin law enforcement. Avery's rights, no matter the misconduct of law enforcement, are to be opposed, believes Kaul.

Kaul is delaying the inevitable, defending a miscarriage of justice and doing dishonor to Wisconsin.

I have lived in Wisconsin all my life, and I do not see the bottom, though Josh Kaul is dredging the filth of Wisconsin as he blocks, obscures and delays, motivated from a pathology only Kaul can truly explain.

Post-conviction attorney, Kathleen Zellner, will be offering a question-and-answer session on Twitter, Feb. 12 at Noon.

The event follows a new filing in Avery's case before the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District Two.

And it follows new evidence demonstrating outright criminality, banditry, by multiple law enforcement jurisdictions.

AVERY: We are READY to do a Twitter Q & A tomorrow (02/12) at NOON re the missing MCGP bones. Have your questions ready. #AskZellner #WorkwithZellner #MakingAMurderer @Newsweek @guardian @BBCWorld @TheTelegraph__ @digitalspy @TheSun

— Kathleen Zellner (@ZellnerLaw) February 11, 2019

Wisconsin media and citizens the world-over will tune in.

Yet, as each new piece of evidence pried from east-central Wisconsin law enforcement reveals duplicity and willful targeting of an innocent man, innocence advocates are already speculating what remedies exist to meet the challenge of systemic criminality.

We need a special prosecutor appointed, and independent and transparent investigation opened, and a complete audit of all evidence. @WisDOJ and @GovEvers quit tacitly supporting officials who aided and abetted murderer of Teresa Halbach!!! https://t.co/JcCkcZU7s6

— Lloyd R Bass II (@lloydbassII) February 12, 2019

#WakeUpWisconsin #WorkWithKZ https://t.co/2UPd9hQoCn

— Sara Dahlke (@sara2oz1019) February 11, 2019

To paraphrase Archibald Cox: Whether we shall continue to be a state of laws is now for ultimately the Wisconsin people to decide.

Making a Murderer — Wisconsin Sheriff's Deputy Implicated by New FOIA Documents

Manitowoc County Sheriff Dept Lt., Andrew Colborn, (Ret),
was implicated in misconduct in the second Steven Avery
frame-up, becoming a major disgraced public figure, as
documented in Making a Murderer, and
Wrecking Crew, Demolishing The Case Against Steven Avery,
(Ferak).

Update: Steven Avery's post-conviction attorney posts new filing Feb. 11 with Wisconsin Court of Appeals, Dist Two.
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Madison, Wisconsin — Among the cast of rogues in the Making a Murderer docuseries is Manitowoc County Deputy Sheriff Andrew Colborn (ret).

Much of Colborn's public conduct as a public official was criticized at the public 2007 trial of Steven Avery.

But Colborn appears frightened.

So frightened that Colborn filed a defamation suit against Netflix and the creators of Making a Murderer earlier this year. Most legal observers believe that this opens Colborn up to extensive sworn examination and scrutiny.

The contents of some 300 documents obtained in a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) revealed the weekend of Feb. 8 by supporters of wrongfully convicted Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, appear to implicate Wisconsin law enforcement in misconduct.

The documents are housed online at Google Docs.

The documents are entitled CASO Ledgers for Calumet County Sheriff's Office (CASO).

One of the FOIA documents show Colborn's time-sheet is contradicted by his sworn testimony at the 2007 trial.

This supports a theory advanced at trial that Colborn came upon the murder victim's missing car and did not report the find.

The car later turned up mysteriously at Avery's property in plain view, a development that helped to convict Avery.

Writes one innocence advocate:

Colborn was most likely on duty on 11/4/2005 when [passer-by] Rahmlow told him about the RAV 4 in Mishicot. We asked MTSO [Manitowoc County Sheriff Dept] for clarification, and they provided time cards that show Colborn was off the 4th-6th. Weird, bc [because] he testified to working 5th and 6th. Hmmmmm.

Colborn was most likely on duty on 11/4/2005 when Rahmlow told him about the RAV 4 in Mishicot.

We asked MTSO for clarification, and they provided time cards that show Colborn was off the 4th-6th. Weird, bc he testified to working 5th and 6th. Hmmmmm.#MakingAMurderer pic.twitter.com/JmWdrtXUdw

— AC (@Rookie1082) February 11, 2019

Revelations such as the above lead advocates to speculate that the 2007 trial may be vacated soon, a development hat may lead to Avery's (and by logic Brendan Dassey's) exoneration.