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NGI — Conditional Release Trial — Jury Instruction on Dangerousness
State v. Alan Adin Randall, 222 Wis. 2d 53, 586 N.W.2d 318 (Ct. App. 1998)
For Randall: Waring Fincke
Issue/Holding: The trial court properly rejected requested instruction that the State must prove “a level of present danger which cannot be managed safely in the community under any set of reasonable conditions,” and instead properly gave an instruciton that the State must prove that “Randall cannot be safely discharged or released without [sic] a danger to himsel for others.”
NGI — Conditional Release Trial — Jury Instruction on Medical Justification / Substantive Due Process
State v. Alan Adin Randall, 222 Wis. 2d 53, 586 N.W.2d 318 (Ct. App. 1998)
For Randall: Waring Fincke
Issue/Holding:
Randall proposed to ask the jury, “Is there any medical justification for the Petitioner’s continued confinement at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute or any other in-patient mental health facility?” The trial court, holding that the State did not have to prove a therapeutic justification, refused to submit the requested instruction.
NGI — Conditional Release Trial — Sufficiency of Evidence on Dangerousness
State v. Alan Adin Randall, 222 Wis. 2d 53, 586 N.W.2d 318 (Ct. App. 1998)
For Randall: Waring Fincke
Issue/Holding: Evidence was sufficient to support the jury’s verdict that Randall not be released, based largely on the cicrcumstances of his crime.
SVP – Sufficiency of evidence
State v. Paul Matek, 223 Wis.2d 611, 589 N.W.2d 441 (Ct. App. 1998)
For Matek: Russell Bohach
Holding: Evidence to support ch. 980 SVP verdict sustained: the diagnosis took into account Matek’s refusal to participate in treatment, and therefore the verdict “was not based solely on his prior bad acts.”
SVP – Sufficiency of evidence – pedophilia
State v. Ronald J. Zanelli (II), 223 Wis.2d 545, 589 N.W.2d 687 (Ct. App. 1998)
For Zanelli: Jane K. Smith.
Holding: Second time’s not the charm for Zanelli, who won his 1st appeal, State v. Zanelli (I), 212 Wis. 2d 358, 569 N.W.2d 301 (Ct. App. 1997). On this subsequent appeal, the court holds the evidence sufficient to establish his pedophilia. The state’s expert witnesses testified that Zanelli suffers from pedophilia,
SVP – Postdisposition: Supervised Release – “Treatability”
State v. Reuven Seibert, 220 Wis. 2d 308, 582 N.W.2d 745 (Ct. App. 1998)
For Seibert: Jane Krueger Smith
Issue/Holding: “(W)hether the proceeding is one under the initial ch. 980 commitment or a later petition for supervised release under § 980.08, there is no constitutional or statutory requirement that the State prove the person is treatable.”