(File Photo by Kevin Mathewson, Kenosha County Eye)
KENOSHA, Wis. — Kenosha County District Attorney Xavier Solis’ Wisconsin law license was temporarily suspended Monday morning after he missed a deadline connected to an ongoing Office of Lawyer Regulation investigation. Solis received notice of the suspension at approximately 11:15 a.m. The suspension was not a determination on the merits of the complaints against him. Deputy District Attorney Rosa Delgado is now serving as acting district attorney while Solis is unable to practice law.
The State Bar of Wisconsin’s online attorney directory listed Solis’ status Monday as “Suspended Disciplinary.” The Wisconsin Court System’s separate lawyer-status database, however, continued to list Solis as active and in “Good Standing” earlier Monday, illustrating the speed with which the situation developed.
OLR Investigation And Massive Records Demand
Solis has been the subject of several complaints filed with the Office of Lawyer Regulation. One stemmed from his undisclosed use of artificial intelligence in a court filing earlier this year. Solis acknowledged in February that AI was used as an assistive drafting tool and that he failed to disclose that use as required under a Kenosha County court rule. The filing also contained a citation to a case that did not exist. Solis apologized for the error and said it would not happen again.
Other complaints were made by former Kenosha County Deputy District Attorney Andrew “Drew” Burgoyne. But the OLR inquiry did not remain limited to the specific complaints that had been filed. Regulators substantially expanded their investigation and demanded a broad collection of records concerning Solis’ private law practice before he became district attorney.
The expanded demand required Solis to go back through years of files involving hundreds of former clients and locate large numbers of letters, communications and other records. It became an enormous document-production undertaking involving matters unrelated to his current work as Kenosha County district attorney. Solis spent hours searching through old client records in an effort to comply with the OLR’s sweeping request.
Despite the breadth of that records demand, Solis’ license was ultimately temporarily suspended because he missed a deadline associated with the OLR investigation, not because the OLR had reached a conclusion that the underlying allegations against him were true.
Courthouse Insider Raises Concern Over Precedent
The circumstances surrounding the suspension are also raising concerns inside the Kenosha County Courthouse about the power of the Office of Lawyer Regulation over an independently elected district attorney.
One courthouse insider told KCE the situation sets a dangerous precedent because unelected regulators can effectively prevent an elected district attorney from performing the job voters elected him to do over a procedural deadline, before any determination has been made that the district attorney actually committed misconduct.
The OLR is part of Wisconsin’s attorney-regulation system and its officials are not elected by Kenosha County voters. Solis, by contrast, was elected by county voters to serve as district attorney. The practical effect of Monday’s action is that an unelected regulatory body has, at least temporarily, prevented the elected district attorney from exercising the legal duties of his office because of a missed deadline connected to a broad document request.
That does not necessarily mean the OLR has legally removed Solis from elected office. Whether a temporary law-license suspension actually creates a vacancy in the office of district attorney appears far less clear.
(Photo by Kevin Mathewson, Kenosha County Eye)
Delgado Now Acting District Attorney
With Solis unable to practice law while his license is suspended, Deputy District Attorney Rosa Delgado has assumed the prosecutorial responsibilities of the office and is serving as acting district attorney.
Wisconsin law identifies a number of circumstances that create a vacancy in public office, including death, resignation, removal and certain criminal convictions. A temporary suspension of an attorney’s law license is not expressly identified as one of those circumstances.
That distinction could become important. Solis may remain the duly elected Kenosha County district attorney while being temporarily prohibited from performing legal work, rather than his office becoming legally vacant. KCE has not identified controlling Wisconsin case law squarely answering what happens when an elected district attorney’s law license is temporarily suspended under circumstances like these.
For now, Delgado is performing the duties of Kenosha County district attorney while Solis’ license remains suspended. KCE will continue investigating the circumstances surrounding the OLR action and how long the suspension is expected to remain in effect.
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She was just online calling cops on an innocent man with a cellphone recording on sidewalk. On phone boasting about her position and who she is!!!! Man broke no laws!!!!
Who? Delgado or Jacquie?
They prevailed—for the moment, at least. Having a Republican DA who doesn’t fit the “establishment” mold is clearly a tremendous burden to bear. Keeping the office running smoothly must be especially challenging when certain paralegals are busy circulating gossip and feeding it to Wacky Jacquie and her ever-growing zoo of friends and followers.
She been wanting this to happen, now she can go get drunk and celebrate, she got nothing better to do.
Whacky Jackie is still an ignorant slut.
Having 3 sums and orgies doesn’t make her a slut, she just a woman that can’t be satisfied and needs several sexual partners at once.
Nope. She’s a slut!
In the realm of attorney discipline this is serious. Failure to cooperate with an investigation is a serious ethical accusation. To be suspended summarily is extraordinary.
OLR will suspend you for paying your dues a day late or filing you went to all your cases a day late.
Solis will be reinstated as soon as he responds to their request for documents.
You are ignorant.
I’ve heard that Wacky Jacky, along with Rita and her crew, are going to be incredibly busy. Big Storm is coming. Solis Stay strong, don’t let these democRATS win.
What Kind of Storm? Sounds like a big story coming Kevin?
Kenosha exposed is like a 6 year old. And that’s a therapist posting? Wow
Exactly, same person that posted about bullying, in all reality she doesn’t care about Kenosha community as a whole or justice to everybody, she cares more about herself, how drunk and stupid she looks being exposed and her cases. She’s an embarrassment, piece of trash, she stalks Xavier and Kevin. Lets see if she posts everyday all day about Rosa now.
Agree. Her and her crew of caputo and other criminals just make fun of anyone that don’t agree. Literally no better. Insane she’s a therapist how embarrassing
She needs to spend more time taking care of her kids and less time on social media, drinking, drugs, etc. She’s a therapist and it seems as though she’s going out of her way to mess up her kids. She’s a horrible parent and, I would imagine, a worse therapist. Why hasn’t her license been suspended?
Literally obsessed. The posts are insane and don’t stop. She wonders why she is being sued
Solis is just the symptom; the sickness is the system itself. Whether it’s AI-generated nonsense in court filings or unelected bureaucrats in Madison deciding who stays and who goes, the rule of law is dead. It’s all theater now. They’ve turned our courtrooms into a digital comments section where the loudest procedural game wins, and the actual foundation of our community, our common heritage and morality, gets tossed in the shredder.
Upset the easy on crime syndicate and you will pay for it.
Will Whacky Jacky lose her license when she is convicted of criiminal defamation?
Retribution is coming.
Is she currently employed now? Considering she constantly checking for every breath Xavier and Kevin take everyday.
Those is going to be a long drawn out event. It appears by statute Rosa could hire and fire as she assumes all duties.
It also appears statute does not address a suspended (now unqualified) DA can ever cure that. Once Solis’s license was suspended, he no longer satisfied the statutory qualification to hold the office. The statute contains no language saying that later reinstatement automatically restores his position.
This is exactly why the attorney bars across the country need to be eliminated and licensure go to the legislature.
I predict Evers will get involved rather quickly in the false believe he’ll pump up his base for November but the opposite will occur!
well that stinks! Xavier is the best thing to happen to the Kenosha County legal system!
Who’s Jackie???