Wisconsin mother gets defense attorney after three years in legal limbo

Wisconsin mother gets defense attorney after three years in legal limbo

Reading Time: 2 minutes In the days following the release of my report focused on the shortage of public defenders in Wisconsin, Tracy Germait — the main subject of the story, who after three years and more than 10,000 calls still didn’t have a defense attorney — received a flood of messages.  “I know they passed out the newsletter in the jails because I have a friend that’s in Redgranite (Correctional Institution), and he’s like, ‘I seen your a…