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Brad Schimel: “When I got to the Department of justice, for 25 years, those…”

Featuring: Brad Schimel, Republican | Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge, Waukesha County

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The sentences I gave were at least what the victim and the prosecutor recommended in every one of them. On the rape kits, let's talk about numbers. She puts it in terms of numbers. When I got to the Department of justice, for 25 years, those rape kits had been neglected in police department storerooms and hospital storerooms. When I got to the Department of justice, during that 25 years, my opponent had spent 12 years as a manager and then Attorney General, Attorney General Doyle's Department of Justice and as the chief legal counsel for Governor Jim Doyle, 12 years. (27:01–27:12)

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