The judge overseeing the investigation, Judge Gregory Peterson , granted that motion in January , stating that the prosecutor's theory of criminal activity was not, in fact, criminal under Wisconsin statutes. Although Schmitz filed an appeal to a higher court, the investigation was effectively stalled. A series of lawsuits were filed, one against the John Doe prosecutors for a violation of free speech and several others against the agency that oversees campaign finance law, the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board GAB , for trying to enforce unconstitutional regulations of issue advocacy groups, the regulations on which the prosecutor's theory was based.
The legality of the investigation eventually went before the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The court combined three cases into one, thereby simultaneously ruling on all three. In its ruling, the Supreme Court criticized Schmitz's handling of the case and declared the actions of Chisholm and Schmitz were violations of the targets' First Amendment rights to political speech. The Supreme Court, in interpreting Wisconsin's campaign finance law , ruled "that the definition of 'political purposes' [ The court noted that since issue advocacy is "beyond the reach of Ch.
The court further declared "the special prosecutor's legal theory is unsupported in either reason or law," thereby declaring an official end to the John Doe II investigation. Regarding the other two cases addressed in the ruling, the court denied Schmitz's supervisory writ and affirmed Peterson's original motion to quash the subpoenas.
It also ruled that the John Doe II judges, Peterson and Barbara Kluka before him, had not "violated a plain legal duty" by allowing the appointment of one judge and one special prosecutor to preside over a multi-county John Doe, though the court did concede "the circumstances surrounding the formation of the John Doe investigation raise serious concerns.
In its ruling, the court ordered that "everything gathered as potential evidence—including thousands of pages of emails and other documents—be returned and all copies be destroyed. This story marked the first time any of the targets spoke publicly about the investigations.
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