A Wisconsin trial involving recently defeated state representative candidate Casey Gray has been postponed indefinitely.
According to online court records from Walworth County Circuit Court, Gray, 40, was scheduled to go to trial April 11 on bail jumping charges, but his attorney Jonathan Carver Smith asked the judge for permission to withdraw from the case during a hearing Wednesday.
In a written motion filed last month, Smith wrote: “Counsel states the client has failed substantially to fulfill an obligation to the lawyer regarding the lawyer’s services and has been given reasonable warning that the lawyer will withdraw unless the obligation was fulfilled.”
Court records indicate the prosecutor on the case did not object to Smith withdrawing from the case, but Gray did. As a result, a court hearing to discuss the matter is now taking place on the date of the original trial.
Online court records reflect that Gray attended the hearing, but they also indicate he is out of the country.
Gray is accused of twice violating a restraining order and jumping bail on the two cases that were filed as a result of those alleged violations. Online records also indicate Gray is involved in a child custody dispute in that same county.
In May 2021, a previous attorney representing Gray in the same case was given permission to withdraw.
Gray ran against District 81 State Rep. Brooks Landgraf in the Republican primary March 1. Landgraf, who was seeking his fifth term, won in a landslide, earning 80% of the votes cast, his largest victory to date.
During the campaign Gray repeatedly accused Landgraf of having multiple affairs. He also accused Landgraf of spreading misinformation about Gray’s military service record and claims of “stolen valor.” However, claims of stolen valor and Gray actually came up during Gray’s 2018 run for the congressional seat held now by August Pfluger.
The OA has been contacted by more than a dozen people who have sent hundreds of pages of documents that question some aspects of Gray’s military service and whether he has worked for the CIA, as he has said. Those people have also suggested Gray has exaggerated the nature of a helicopter incident in Korea and the injuries he sustained.
Gray has declined to supply most of the documents asked for, instead questioning the OA’s motives.
“I find it appalling that you continue these unethical attacks to attempt to discredit my military service. You are very much in the business of attacking military members and their service and these absurd questions that seem to come from internet trolls and from Landgraf supporters are telling of your bias,” Gray said via email.
