Put another stake into the Left’s attack on Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser.  After Prosser narrowly won a new term this April, one of his colleagues accused Prosser of attempting to put her into a chokehold.  A subsequent investigation produced witnesses to the altercation that claimed Justice Ann Walsh Bradley had actually threatened Prosser in the middle of an argument and that Prosser had done nothing but put up his hands to defend himself.  Dane County Attorney General Ismael Ozanne asked for a special prosecutor to determine whether charges should be filed, and today, the special prosecutor told everyone to get over it:

Neither Supreme Court Justice David Prosser nor fellow Justice Anne Walsh Bradley will face criminal charges for an altercation this summer involving the two, a special prosecutor has determined.

“After a complete review . . . I have determined that no criminal charges will be filed against either Justice Bradley or Justice Prosser for the incident on June 13, 2011,” Sauk County District Attorney Patricia Barrett wrote in a fax sent Thursday morning to a Dane County judge.

Bradley has said Prosser put her in a “chokehold” during a June argument over a case in her chambers. Others have said Bradley came at Prosser with fists raised and he put up his hands to block her or push her back.

The incident didn’t come to light for several days.  Only after someone leaked a version of the story that was highly sympathetic to Bradley did law enforcement confirm the altercation.  Prosser had to defend himself publicly, and then a flurry of versions got leaked to the press, all of which made Wisconsin voters wonder when kindergarten would let out and the state could finally get back to work.

The story isn’t quite over, either.  The sheriff submitted their investigative reports to the state’s Judicial Commission, which will probe the incident for any ethics violations.  However, since any allegations have to be addressed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, it’s most likely that the judiciary will let this disappear into oblivion at the earliest possible moment.

Update: This seems appropriate: