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Sentence Credit – Reconfinement and New Sentence, Concurrent
State v. Donald Odom, 2006 WI App 145 For Odom: Eileen Miller Carter; J.C. Moore, SPD, Milwaukee Trial Issue/Holding: Odom is entitled to full sentence credit on both his reconfinement and new sentence, given that they are concurrent, ¶34: (B)ecause Odom was sentenced on the same day to concurrent sentences for his revocation of extended release […]
No-Merit Report – Client’s Options
State ex rel. Perry Van Hout v. Endicott, 2006 WI App 196, PFR filed 10/11/06 For Van Hout: Robert R. Henak Issue/Holding: ¶23 Where a defendant has specifically directed counsel not to file a no-merit report after being advised of his or her options, counsel is not free to ignore the defendant’s direction. We discussed […]
Sentence Credit – Time Spent in Custody after Extended Supervision Revocation but before Reconfinement Hearing
State v. Lee Terrence Presley, 2006 WI App 82 For Presley: Richard D. Martin, SPD, Milwaukee Appellate Issue/Holding: Sentence credit is required for for days spent in jail between dates of revocation of extended supervision in an earlier case and sentencing on both the revoked supervision and a new case. ¶10 Presley submits that Beets requires sentence credit until […]
Postconviction Motions – § 974.06, Serial Litigation Bar
State v. David R. Kaster, 2006 WI App 72, PFR filed 4/26/06; prior appeal: 2003 WI App 105 For Kaster: Robert R. Kaster Issue/Holding: ¶9 Kaster next argues that the evidence was legally insufficient to sustain the disorderly conduct charge. …. Kaster has not demonstrated a “sufficient reason” under § 974.06(4) to overcome the fact […]
Waiver (of Appellate Counsel) — By Conduct
State ex rel. Perry Van Hout v. Endicott, 2006 WI App 196, PFR filed 10/11/06 For Van Hout: Robert R. Henak Issue: Whether Van Hout waived his right to appellate counsel where he rejected counsel’s offer of a no-merit report and then, after having been warned of the dangers of proceeding pro se, chose neither […]
Waiver – Closing Argument – Failure to Move for Mistrial
State v. Nicole Schutte, 2006 WI App 135, PFR filed 7/21/06 For Schutte: Donald T. Lang, SPD, Madison Appellate Issue/Holding: Failure to move for mistrial waived any objection to the prosecutor’s closing argument, ¶60. Nor do the comments rise to the level of plain error necessary to overcome waiver: ¶61 The State points out that, […]
Appellate Procedure – Waiver of Argument: Confrontation – Crawford Issue, Trial Held Before Crawford Decided
State v. Jeffrey Lorenzo Searcy, 2006 WI App 8 For Searcy: Joseph L. Sommers Issue/Holding: Failure to raise a Crawford objection didn’t amount to waiver: “However, Searcy could not have raised at trial a Confrontation Clause claim based on Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), because his December 2002 trial preceded the March 2004 […]
Guilty Plea Waiver Rule – Generally, Exception for IAC Claim
State v. Juan F. Milanes, 2006 WI App 259, PFR filed 12/7/06 For Milanes: Joan M. Boyd Issue/Holding: ¶13 A valid guilty or no contest plea waives all nonjurisdictional defenses to a conviction, including constitutional violations. See State v. Riekkoff, 112 Wis. 2d 119, 122-23, 332 N.W.2d 744 (1983). One exception to this rule is […]
Restitution — Law Enforcement as “Victim” — Damage to Squad during Pursuit
State v. Earl W. Haase, 2006 WI App 86, (State’s) PFR filed 5/17/06 For Haase: Glenn L. Cushing, SPD, Madison Appellate Issue: Whether restitution may be ordered for damage caused to a squad car destroyed by fire during pursuit of the defendant. Holding: A governmental “agency must be a direct victim of the criminal conduct to be reimbursed for a […]
Judicial Estoppel Bar to Argument, General Principles
Olson v. Darlington Mutual Ins., 2006 WI App 204 Issue/Holding: ¶4 … The required elements of judicial estoppel are: First, the later position must be clearly inconsistent with the earlier position; second, the facts at issue should be the same in both cases; and finally, the party to be estopped must have convinced the […]
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