Stand with Ike: Overcoming Injustice Together

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Most were very quick to jump to conclusions about Ike. Many people jumped at the opportunity to believe he was a horrible person and capable of the horrible accusations towards him, ruining his life, turning it upside down, and causing him to endure suffering for a year.

Kenosha County Scanner attorney even states, his "story can be best described as an "Online Lynching". Any Presumption of Innocence, one of the most important Legal Principles in our Criminal Justice System, was immediately tossed out the window."

A quote from one of his many friends says, "Ike is one of the kindest, gentlest, and harmless beings I know." He is one of the best people I know, a good friend, and always willing to help another out.

Here's the most recent post from Kenosha County Scanner, with Ike's story. Please read it in entirety...THANK YOU & please SHARE.

Kenosha County Scanner

· July 22 at 2:56 PM ·

DNA Evidence Exonerates Salem Lakes Man

Last July, we ran a story about Ike D. Miller III of Salem Lakes after he was arrested due to an incident at the Kickstand Bar that Mr. Miller formerly owned.

Per the criminal complaint, an unnamed female had indicated that Mr. Miller had sexually assaulted her. After questioning, the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department arrested and charged Mr. Miller with the following charges:

Battery - Misdemeanor A

2nd Degree Sexual Assault/Use of Force - Felony C (2 counts)

False Imprisonment - Felony H

After waiting almost a year for DNA evidence results, the results came back and did not support the story of the supposed victim. Per the states motion to dismiss this case, the supposed victim claimed a "significant amount of forcible sexual contact". Mr. Miller continued to deny these allegations.

Both subjects underwent forensic examination. No DNA from Mr. Miller was found on the supposed victim and no DNA from the supposed victim was found on Mr. Miller

Due to the lack of physical evidence, the State does NOT believe it can prove its case beyond reasonable doubt at trial and moved to dismiss the case today in court.

In a statement submitted to Kenosha County Scanner, attorney Theodore Kmiec III states:

"I am choosing to exclusively release this Statement the Kenosha County Scanner Page for two reasons. First of all, I trust this outlet because they are a Credible Organization that primarily reports factual information without distortion, bias, misleading information, political motivation or outright untruthfulness. They are usually factually accurate in their postings. I know the Scanner page reaches many people of all political persuasions.

Secondly, there was a Scanner posting on Mr. Miller's case reporting his arrest for Criminal Sexual Assault. Some people posted comments on this story that can best be described as an "Online Lynching". Any Presumption of Innocence, one of the most important Legal Principles in our Criminal Justice System, was immediately tossed out the window. Mr. Miller was tried, convicted and sentenced on social media before anything even happened in a Courtroom. Many more defended him and said there was no way he would ever do anything like what he was accused of. Well, you Folks were right.

Mr. Miller was the owner of the Kickstand Bar in Trevor. His bond was initially set at 75K cash (it was 100K originally), meaning he would have to post that entire amount to be released. I was able to get a bond reduction to 10k cash, after some initial indications that the Complaining Witness, who I refuse to refer to as a "Victim" in this case, allegations were not consistent. He was released on bond after posting the 10k. I give credit to the Kenosha County District Attorney's Office for their transparency and the agreement to lower the bond in this case. He spent 11 days in Kenosha County Jail before he bonded out.

Fortunately, the arresting agency, the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department, collected DNA evidence from both the Complaining Witness and Mr. Miller. The allegations made were that Mr. Miller digitally penetrated her vagina with his fingers and anally penetrated her with his penis, both against her will. When people think DNA evidence, they think of bodily fluids, such as semen or saliva. But when skin to skin contact is made, a person's DNA will rub off on the skin or clothing of another person. When a "Rape Kit" is done, it's part of what's called a SANE Examination, which stands for "Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner", where a trained SANE Nurse takes swabs off of an alleged victim for analysis by a Crime Lab. If an alleged perpetrator is taken into custody immediately or within a very short time period, swabs are also collected from that person. One can only imagine how humiliating it must be to have some stranger swab your private parts.

For almost year, Mr. Miller had to wait for the results of DNA extraction and comparison. There was no priority put on the testing here. During that time, he was forced to sell the Kickstand Bar and suffer devastating financial repercussions as a result. What may have even been worse, is that he had to endure the public recrimination and gossip that he was in fact guilty of this horrific crime. Unfortunately, I doubt he will ever fully recover from it.

Last month, the long-awaited DNA comparisons were finally received from the Crime Lab. The results 100 percent cleared Mr. Miller of the accusations made against him in this case. There was none of her DNA found on him, and none of his DNA found on or in her. The State of Wisconsin filed a motion to dismiss the case:

"Given the DNA results, the State no longer believes it can prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. If the victim’s version of events that night is accurate, there would have been DNA of the Defendant found on her person or clothing, as well as, potentially, her DNA found on the Defendant. However, the results show no male DNA being present on any of the areas in which sexual contact was alleged and the Defendant’s examination was clean ... these results would be impossible to explain to a jury considering DNA can linger days on a person’s body, even after bathing and showering. There is simply no credible way to explain this evidence consistent with the Defendant’s guilt. As a result, the State no longer believes it can prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt and feels ethically obligated to the dismiss the charges"

I immediately requested the case by advanced to be dismissed as soon as possible. This afternoon, Mr. Miller's yearlong nightmare ended with dismissal of these false charges in Kenosha County Circuit Court.

I would encourage everyone to go back to 7/3/23 and in the days after Mr. Miller's arrest to review the comments you made on this page or on other Social Media sites. Take a look at your comments. For those who supported Ike and made comments that this is false and never could have happened, on behalf of Ike and his Family and Friends, I want to thank you for your support. For those who said let the Justice system run its course before you pass judgement, you were 100 percent correct, it worked in this case.

For those of you who presumed his guilt or made other garbage comments on Ike and this case, I guess I'll bite my tongue and not comment. But they were out there for the World to see. Someday you may find yourself or a family member or friend falsely accused of a serious crime .... I'll just leave it at that.

Social media has become a Cesspool of hatred, false information, biased reporting and the spreading of lies, half-truths and falsehoods. Some even profit from and count on people believing and spreading for what is, for lack of a better legal term, Bullshit. Hate has become an Industry we feed daily by spreading and commenting on cases, stories and individuals without knowing or caring what the Truth is. Ike's story is a story of the damage this kind of garbage is capable of. I hope people are as motivated to spread the Truth."

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