Ray Dall’Osto testifying before Senate Judiciary Committee in support of SB 577 on Dec. 17, 2025.

GRGB and its Milwaukee criminal defense team lawyers have long been involved in efforts to obtain the release of wrongfully convicted persons and help them seek and obtain compensation for wrongful incarceration. These efforts include not only direct representation in court with postconviction motions and appeals, but also representing exonerees with claims for exonerated compensation and joint efforts with the Wisconsin Innocence Project to obtain the release of wrongfully convicted individuals.

However, being exonerated of a crime is just the beginning. Upon release, sometimes after decades of wrongful imprisonment, exonerees are left with little or no resources to rely on as they re-enter society. Over a century ago, Wisconsin became the first state to pass laws to compensate individuals who were wrongly convicted, but those laws have not been updated in decades. Now Wisconsin’s limits on compensation are the lowest of any such statute in the nation.