Dane is different? GOP judge is different

From Charlie Sykes's blog:

DANE COUNTY IS DIFFERENT
Check out this judge's sentence

One of three young men accused in a stabbing and baseball bat attack on others in a gang-related incident a year ago was put on probation for eight years Monday, but was not given any more jail time because he has been behind bars for more than a year.

Hector Romero, 19, of Madison, and his companions attacked a 15-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy on Columbus Lane on Madison's east side April 30, 2005. The 17-year-old suffered damage to his heart, lung, liver and diaphragm in the attack, in which one of the victims identified Romero as the man who stabbed the 17-year-old.

The 15-year-old was clubbed in the head with a baseball bat.

Probation? Probation? What's in the water in Kalthleen Falkland?

That prompted this e-mail:

From: Michael Basford
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:30 AM
To: 'sykes@620wtmj.com'
Subject: re: DANE COUNTY IS DIFFERENT

Charlie,

You could point out that the judge was Hon. Patrick J. Fiedler -- who was Ronald Reagan's US Attorney in Wisconsin's Western District, Tommy Thompson's Secretary of Corrections, and was appointed to the bench by Gov Thompson. I look forward to reading your clarification.

MB

Sykes has been too busy lionizing Bob Ziegelbauer to clarify that it was a Republican judge, not Kathleen Falk, who did the sentencing. But I'm sure it's coming.