FACT CHECK: Waukesha DA Candidate Lesli Boese Disputes Mike Thurston's Trial Statement

Waukesha Co. DA candidate Lesli Boese wrote that candidate Mike Thurston’s accusations about her trials were “obviously an attempt to deflect from his own record, and my recent press release in regards to his John Chishom donations.”Waukesha County DA candidates Lesli Boese and Mike Thurston are accusing each other of lying over the number of jury trials Boese has handled, as the race heats up. However, Wisconsin Right Now checked with the Waukesha Freeman about one of Thurston’s central claims against Boese, and the Freeman indicated that an error was made by the reporter, not Boese.In a June 4 news release, Thurston, a prosecutor in the office, said that Boese had “repeatedly lied about her record as a prosecutor.” She, in turn, accused him of lying about her. He claimed that Boese had falsely told a reporter for the Waukesha Freeman that she had “tried over 10,000 cases.” Boese, also a career prosecutor in the office who co-chaired the Darrell Brooks prosecution, responded in a June...