MILWAUKEE, WI (WRN) — Milwaukee County District attorney says his office made a mistake in allowing the man accused in the Waukesha Parade attack back out on bail. DA John Chisholm says the Assistant district attorney in charge of Darrell Brooks Junior’s domestic violence case requested a bail that was too low given his past history.
“You had a young ADA trying to do the very best she could under really difficult circumstances and she made a mistake,” said Chisholm. “”Given the volume of cases she was dealing with, giving her the jury trial that she was working on, she simply charged the case. She looked at the previous bail, saw that it was 500, and she doubled it.”
Chisholm says that a file that would have recommended a higher bail in the new case was not yet added to Brooks’ record at the office, leading to the lower bail.
