/EINPresswire.com/ -- KANSAS CITY, MO--(Marketwired - October 19, 2016) - Graves Garrett LLC has marked yet another victory in a case relating to Gov. Scott Walker.

On Oct. 3, the United States Supreme Court denied the petition for certiorari filed by John Chisholm and two other prosecutors. Had it been granted, the petition would have led the U.S. Supreme Court to review decisions by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the John Doe Judge case.

The John Doe Judge investigation started in 2010, then called "John Doe I," and overlapped with a successor inquiry, called John Doe II, that began in 2012. On July 16, 2015, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a ruling in favor of the Wisconsin Club for Growth and Eric O'Keefe, who sought to defend themselves against the political bullying of Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board relating to their support for Gov. Scott Walker's policy agenda.

The petition for certiorari is the final blow for Chisholm.

"The prosecutors have now lost at every conceivable level: first before the John Doe Judge, then before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, twice, and now at the United States Supreme Court," said Eddie Greim, who served as co-counsel with Todd Graves representing the Wisconsin Club for Growth and Eric O'Keefe, the club's president in the investigation.

"From its inception, this proceeding was a politically motivated attack and a criminal investigation in search of a theory," O'Keefe said.

The case was important, according to counsel. "By trying to criminalize campaign speech, Chisholm and the GAB not only made an attack on our clients' fundamental liberties but also did so in an outrageous overreach of the law," said Graves.

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