DNR Showing-Up With Memos

Bureaucrats are famous for their love of paper, and this week's kick-off of Expert Testimony put that fact on display.

During the pre-trial hearing late last fall at the library in Fort Atkinson, ground rules were established for the Contested Case Hearing. All parties, DNR, RKLD, et. al, agreed to pre-filing testimony from their respective expert witnesses.

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The intent was to save time. Witnesses would take their seat, agree that the testimony they had previously submitted was still valid and accurate, and then cross-examination could proceed.

The benefit to this process is/was, all parties would see testimony prior to the hearing and prepare their cross accordingly.

Cross-examination testimony was to be verbal responses, yet, the DNR Expert Witnesses have arrived with yet more written testimony; testimony that RKLD, RRKA and LKRA attorneys have not seen prior to the hearing.

The judge has ruled written presentations, even a DNR PowerPoint presentation, admissible.