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SVP – Trial: Venue – County of Predicate Offense
State v. Bernard G. Tainter, 2002 WI App 296, PFR filed 12/23/02
Issue/Holding:
¶14. Wisconsin Const. art. I, § 7, grants criminal defendants the right to a trial “by an impartial jury of the county or district wherein the offense shall have been committed; which county or district shall have been previously ascertained by law.” Tainter claims this provision conflicts with Wis. Stat. § 980.02(4) and (5),