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((This idiot judge has, obviously, never been on the receiving end of a stalker. The only think he's been on a receiving end of his pompous life are the fingers of his masseuse and a scotch and soda at his country club. Jerk, fool, and incompetent!! Ron)) Milwaukee Journal Waukesha, Wisconsin Waukesha County Circuit Judge J. Mac Davis on Friday refused to make public the court-ordered supervision plan and other records of a man who is to be released on Monday after spending most of the past decade in state mental health hospitals after he crashed a sport utility vehicle into the home of a woman he was stalking. Davis approved a supervision plan Friday that had been prepared by Lutheran Social Services to supervise Bradley D. Clark, formerly of the Town of Waukesha, when he is released into the community. But only two of the 12 conditions that Clark must abide by were mentioned publicly in the courtroom. One says that Clark is to be electronically monitored. That condition was mentioned only because Robert G. LeBell, Clark's lawyer, said his probation officer could not set up the monitoring until Monday. The other publicly stated condition is that Clark is to have no contact with the victim or her family. That condition was added to the plan on Friday by Waukesha County Deputy District Attorney Timothy F. Westphal. After the hearing, the Journal Sentinel asked Davis to disclose the supervision plan, but he declined. Davis told a reporter that it was not "self-evident to him" that the supervision plan is a public record. Additionally, Davis said he would not release the plan without consulting with LeBell and Westphal. He told the Journal Sentinel to file a motion requesting a hearing on the matter. LeBell would not release details of the supervision plan, noting he thought that part of the court file would be sealed by the judge. Westphal said that he believed the document was a public record, but that it would be up to the judge to release it. Because the supervision plan was not made public, it could not be determined if a community had been selected in which Clark would reside. Davis also earlier this year denied a request from the Journal Sentinel to review the reports from three mental health experts who evaluated Clark, now 29. Those reports were used to determine whether Clark should be freed. Davis sealed them after a hearing in February. The judge would not explain his basis for denying the newspaper's request, but noted the newspaper could ask for a hearing. Journal Sentinel attorney Paul Kritzer said after Friday's hearing that he planned to file a motion seeking the release of the experts' reports and the supervision plan. "You would like to know what is happening with people released under these plans," said Kritzer, vice president and general counsel for the newspaper. "You want to make sure the judicial procedures seem appropriate. It raises curiosity when facts behind the decision are shrouded. "The reports that are the basis of the decision generally are open to the public," Kritzer said. Clark ran afoul of the law about 11 years ago after he became obsessed with a woman who lived across the street from him in the Town of Waukesha. Clark's peculiar obsession with his neighbor prompted him to pay her repeated unwanted daily visits, telephone her at all hours and rifle through her husband's mail, among other things. When the unwanted attention led the woman to get a restraining order in 1996, barring him from having any contact with her, Clark went to her home and pounded on her door six hours after it took effect, according to a criminal complaint. And when the woman summoned a sheriff's deputy to her home to report the violation, Clark used an Isuzu Rodeo to end their discussion. As another neighbor watched, Clark backed the Rodeo into his parents' garage, idled there momentarily, then roared down the driveway, across the street and through the air over her lawn before slamming into the front of the woman's home, the complaint says. Clark was committed for inpatient treatment in November 1996. Mental illness diagnosedClark, who suffers from schizoaffective disorder, personality disorder and migraine headaches, according to court records, had a history of bizarre behavior with cars, destroying seven of them in the seven years leading up to the day he launched the Rodeo into his neighbor's home. Earlier in 1996, court records show, he drove a car at full speed over the edge of a road with a 23-foot embankment and plunged into a lake, where the vehicle sank in 20 feet of water after he climbed out. In 2002, according to court records, Clark was transferred to Mendota Mental Health Institute after he "engaged in stalking-like behavior of a female patient" at Winnebago. After Davis granted the release request, Clark told Mendota personnel that his goal was to "to return home to my parents" in Edgerton.
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