Meanwhile, in Michigan: Public Records, Manipulating Local Justice & the Bulinski Fiasco in Gogebic County..

The following pdf document is the results of an Open Records Request in Michigan that documents the alleged victims police and court history in Michigan. It includes Personal Protection Orders, her arrest record and other documentation.

The publication of these documents is merely for documentation purposes and to make the record of issues relating to Don's case as transparent as possible. All records would be perfectly available to any member of the public if they wished to request them. Thank you to Stephen Williams for obtaining these documents.

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In interviews with former friends of Connie Vargovich, the fiasco in 2000 in Gogebic County concerning former Bessemer Councilman and Gogebic County Probation Officer Peter Bulinski arose. Some former friends claim, they heard from Connie that she was in a bit of trouble over bounced checks in Gogebic County and while on probation there she began a sexual relationship with her probation officer with a view to get him fired.

Earlier this year, a confirmation came on that story, someone close to Mr. Bulinski, has confirmed to us that the woman involved in the scandal was indeed Connie Vargovich. Mr. Bulinski is now deceased. We are currently attempting to obtain more records related to this story.

Connie has a documented history of manipulating the justice system to exact revenge on people. No where is this more apparent than the case of Don Miller. However, as we have reported previously on the blog, she has a string of Personal Protection Orders (PPO's) and harassment injunctions against many people. Some with an eery resemblance to the accusations she made against Don which saw Don convicted by a jury of multiple crimes and sent to prison for 42 years.

Note the allegations against these two different men made only months before she accused Don Miller of the crimes he was sent to prison for.

April 18th, 1997 - PPO against Ken Grenfell

June 26th, 1997 - PPO against Kim Aijala

The full PPO documents can be viewed here. 

Not only was it implied by some of Connie's former friends that she intentionally was using sex to manipulate the justice system in Gogebic County and exact revenge on her probation officer in Bessemer, some of the details of the affair published by the Ironwood Daily Globe at the time are very curious indeed!

April 22, 2000

Mr. Bulinski had immediately resigned from all positions without official explanation. Note that Gogebic County District Court Judge Anders Tingstad states that the State Court Administrator's office issued a gagging order on the matter; preventing him from commenting at all on the matter. Then, a bit more information comes out about the scandal...

UPDATE: What exactly is "acceptable" to Circuit Court Judge Patrick J. Madden?

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Patrick J. Madden: Key Figure in the Wrongful Conviction of Don Miller #3

Yesterday, in part 2 of the series on Judge Madden we looked at his role in events before and at the trial of Don Miller. Today in our 3rd part we will be looking at some information that came to light a few years after Don's conviction that sharply questioned why Judge Madden simply did not recuse himself from this case.

Michele Aspinwall, a woman who had moved out of the area before Don Miller's trial was a friend of the alleged victim in this case. She returned back to the area a few years after Don's conviction and learned about the case and was shocked to find out that Judge Madden had presided over the case as she was well aware of the personal relationship between the Judge and the alleged victim in the Don Miller case.

Michele knew that it was imperative that this information be made known and contacted the State of Wisconsin Attorney General's office and spoke to Charles Hess of CMC Investigations about what she knew of their relationship.

LISTEN to the full interview between Michele Aspinwall and Charles Hess

READ the transcript of this interview

SEE Michele's sworn affidavit.

Michele also wrote to the Attorney General's Office. Read her letter.



Nichole Aspinwall worked as a bartender in the Mahogany Ridge Saloon in Hurley's Lower Block. She too witnessed the Judge and the alleged victim socialising in the bar on many occasions.

READ a statement Nichole made to Charles Hess regarding the Judge and the alleged victim.


The revelations these two witnesses made to investigator Charles Hess started to shed light on some of the very odd issues and inconsistencies of Don's case.

To this day, not one single person has refuted, rebutted or challenged any of the statements made by Michele or Nichole. In fact, very much the opposite. Their statements have been corroborated by other people also witness to the facts in their statements. 

Never more than ever after the farce of a hearing he endured last Thursday does Don need others to also step up and speak about what they have witnessed.

Tomorrow, in part 4 of the series this week we will be releasing a never before heard interview between Stephen Williams and Judge Patrick Madden.

You don't want to miss it!

NEWS: Miller Motion Denied

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VIDEO: Don Miller promo

"Free Don Miller" Talk Radio Show

Underground Hard Drive presents a 1 hour radio show dedicated to exploring the facts and evidence of Don's case. You can listen LIVE Thursday Nights at 9 pm CST and phone in (424) 243 - 9520

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UPDATE: Revised Version of Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction PART 2

I would encourage everyone to have a read of the latest revised version of Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction PART 2. Don has edited and added new information. Thanks to Dennis of freedonmiller.com for scanning in and posting this update!

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PODCAST #2: Don Miller Case Story

Bob Green

Veteran Wisconsin broadcaster and journalist, Bob Green, continues with the series of podcasts about the case of Don Miller. Bob's second podcast is a basic case story and an introduction of the events leading up to and surrounding the arrest and trial of Don Miller. A perfect introductory podcast to pass along to friends to help get newcomers to this story up to speed with the basic elements of Don's case. Please pass along.

Bob has been a key researcher, advocate and vocal supporter of Don Miller for the past several months and has also teamed up with Stephen Williams to do a weekly 1 hour internet radio show, FREE DON MILLER, on the Underground Hard Drive, dedicated solely to exploring the facts and questions of the case of Don Miller. Bob can also be found on the FREE DON MILLER facebook page that himself and Stephen launched posting daily about several elements of the Donald Miller case.

[ LISTEN to FREE DON MILLER Podcast #2 ]

Audio Interview: Dr. Lanny Robins

Stephen Williams interviews Dr. Lanny Robins at Marshfield Clinic in Park Falls, Wisconsin. This audio is extracted from the November 4th, 2011 episode of the "Free Don Miller Show" on the Underground Hard Drive.

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***Thanks to Fred for chopping the audio and uploading

BIG UPDATE! The trial transcript and related court documents and other transcripts are now available for download.

• 10/20/1997 - Connie seeks a restraining order against Don the day after his arrest

• 10/21/1997 - Transcripts of Bond Hearing
• 10/21/1997 - Don's Bond Conditions
• 10/23/1997 - Transcripts of Initial Appearance in court
• 10/27/1997 - Transcripts of Adourned Initial Appearance
• 11/04/1997 - Transcripts of Preliminary Examination
• 11/10/1997 - Transcripts of Arraignment
• 11/17/1997 - Transcripts of the Motion Hearing before trial
• 11/24/1997 - Transcripts of the Pre-Trial Hearing
• 12/04/1997 - TRIAL TRANSCRIPTS - Day 1 - VOL. I - Pages 1 thru 211
• 12/05/1997 - TRIAL TRANSCRIPTS - Day 2 - VOL. I I - Pages 212 thru 605

A big thanks to Stephen Williams for uploading the documents and to my friend Fred here in Scotland who resized and rearranged the trial transcript into the 2 volumes.

Update from Don

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"Free Don Miller" Talk Radio Show

Underground Hard Drive presents a 1 hour radio show dedicated to exploring the facts and evidence of Don's case. You can listen LIVE Thursday Nights at 9 pm CST and phone in (424) 243 - 9520

[ LISTEN to this episode on Underground Hard Drive ]

UPDATE: Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction PART 2

A big thanks to Dennis Miller for passing along Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction PART 2. It is also posted at his site www.freedonmiller.com


The three main MUST READ documents relating to Don's case have always been Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction, The Undisputed Facts, and The Inconsistencies of Connie Vargovich. These last two documents have now been rolled into PART 2 of Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction plus some new information added. I encourage you to check it out here.

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I am currently working on an HTML complete crossreferenced version of Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction PART 1 and will be doing the same with PART 2 which will have links into the document vault providing evidence for the claims and facts presented in these documents.

Update from Don

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Connie: guilty of Operating while Suspended

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She was also brought to court the same day for Drunk Driving but, this charge is dismissed and she is "presumed innocent" of this charge.

The Inconsistencies of Connie Vargovich

A must read.
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