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WI Supreme Court candidate jailed man 2 years for raping veteran, said ‘part of me’ wanted to give probation
A Wisconsin judge running for a seat on the state’s Supreme Court sentenced a man to just over two years in prison after brutally raping a military veteran.
Janet Protasiewicz, a Wisconsin judge running for a seat on the state’s Supreme Court, has a long history of giving light sentences to sex criminals, including a man she imprisoned for just over two years after brutally raping a military veteran in 2019.
Robert Guzinski, 42, was accused of pushing a military veteran down onto the icy hood of a vehicle and vaginally and anally raping her in a bar alleyway in January 2019. The victim told the court she suffered from physical injuries, nightmares and crippling anxiety from the attack, which resulted in months of therapy and a mental health-related hospitalization.
"Is probation appropriate for you, given the fact that you have so many pro-social characteristics?" Protasiewicz said to Guzinski during the sentencing, according to the court transcript. "And I weigh that very, very carefully. It's not an easy call, Mr. Guzinski."
"As much as part of me would like to place you on probation, I just can’t do that," the judge said at the time. "It’s not a probationary case."
Guzinski pled guilty to third-degree sexual assault, for which he faced a maximum 10 years in prison, but Protasiewicz gave him 2.5 years in prison, with credit for 52 days already served, followed by 2.5 years of probation.
