Judge Bruce Schroeder Photo credit Washington Post
Schroeder has a reputation for strictness in sentencing, according to the Times. On occasion, he has lectured prospective jurors about their civic duty. In the Rittenhous trial, Schroeder compared the jurors’ duty to a U.S. soldier serving in Vietnam.
Earlier this year, the Court of Appeals threw out part of a sentence Schroeder imposed against a woman convicted of shoplifting, the Journal Sentinel reported. Schroeder ruled that while on two years of supervision — after a 15-month prison term — the woman had to inform the management of any store she entered that she was on supervision for retail theft.
During the 2008 murder trial of Mark Jensen, who was accused of poisoning his wife with antifreeze and then smothering her in 1991, the conviction was overturned, the Times reported. Appellate courts and the state Supreme Court ruled that Schroeder had improperly allowed evidence in the trial.
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