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Search Warrants – Staleness
State v. Sheldon C. Stank, 2005 WI App 236 For Stank: Dennis P. Coffey Issue: Whether a time lag of two months between the informant’s observations and the application for the search warrant rendered the warrant stale. Holding: Passage of time dose not alone render probable cause stale; the warrant-issuing court may consider various factors, ¶33 (citing State […]
Wisconsin Electronic Surveillance Control Law (WESCL), §§ 968.27-.37 – Jailhouse Call Intercept – Possibility of Attorney-Client Conversation Doesn’t Overcome Notice to Inmate of Potential for Intercept
State v. Troy Curtis Christensen, 2005 WI App 203 For Christensen: Jefren E. Olsen, SPD, Madison Appellate Issue/Holding: Given proper notice that calls are subject to recording or monitoring, WESCL allows intercepts of outgoing jail calls notwithstanding the potential for capturing attorney-client calls. (State v. Deonte D. Riley, 2005 WI App 203, ¶13 n. 5, which […]
Wisconsin Electronic Surveillance Control Law (WESCL), §§ 968.27-.37 – Jailhouse Calls – One-Party Consent: Notice to Inmate of Potential for Intercept
State v. Deonte D. Riley, 2005 WI App 203 For Riley: William E. Schmaal Issue/Holding: A recorded message heard by any jail inmate placing an outgoing call, to the effect the call may be recorded, was sufficient to trigger WESCL’s one-party consent exception: ¶10 The WESCL is patterned after Title III of the federal Omnibus Control […]
§ 939.32, Attempt, Committed as PTAC Conspiracy
State v. Neil P. Jackson, 2005 WI App 104 For Jackson: Timothy A. Provis Issue/Holding: ¶7 Jackson alleges that the jury instruction on conspiracy violated his right to due process because, he contends, “conspiracy to attempt” is a nonexistent crime. Jackson relies on United States v. Meacham, 626 F.2d 503 (5th Cir. 1980), and People v. Iniguez, […]
Plain View – Generally
State v. Shaun E. Kelley, 2005 WI App 199 For Kelley: Gregory Bates Issue/Holding: ¶15 An officer has the right to access objects in plain view while searching within the scope of the consent. See State v. Johnson, 187 Wis. 2d 237, 242, 522 N.W.2d 588 (Ct. App. 1994). In order for the plain view doctrine to […]
Reasonable Suspicion – Stop – Duration – Routine Traffic Offense
State v. Reginald Jones / Maurice E. O’Neal, 2005 WI App 26, (AG’s) PFR filed 2/23/05 For Jones: John P. Tedesco, SPD, Madison Appellate For O’Neal: Jess Martinez Issue/Holding: Though the facts are almost indistinguishable from those in State v. Lawrence A. Williams, 2002 WI 94, 255 Wis. 2d 1, 646 N.W.2d 834, consent to search a car immediately after conclusion of […]
Reasonable Suspicion – Stop – Basis – General
State v. Earnest Alexander, 2005 WI App 235 For Alexander: Steven D. Phillips, SPD, Madison Appellate Issue: Whether description of a shooting suspect as a black male wearing black skull cap, black jacket and dark pants, more than a day after the shooting permitted the stop of Alexander ten blocks east of the crime scene, wearing […]
Reasonable Suspicion – Stop – Basis – Loitering
State v. Damian Darnell Washington, 2005 WI App 123 For Washington: Diana M. Felsmann, SPD, Milwaukee Appellate Issue/Holding: ¶17 … While the officer testified that he was going to cite Washington for loitering, he did not demonstrate a reasonable, articulable basis for doing so. Investigating a vague complaint of loitering and observing Washington in the […]
§ 940.09, Homicide by Intoxicated use of Vehicle (Boat) – Homicide by Intoxicated Use of Vehicle (Boat) – Constitutionality
State v. Peter A. Fonte, 2005 WI 77, reversing unpublished decision For Fonte: Martha A. Askins, SPD, Madison Appellate Issue/Holding: § 940.09 is constitutional, as against a challenge that it relieves the State of proving a causal connection between intoxication and death; reasoning in, and result of, State v. Caibaiosai, 122 Wis. 2d 587, 363 N.W.2d 574 (1985) […]
§ 940.09, Homicide by Intoxicated use of Vehicle (Boat) – Sufficiency of Proof of “Operating”
State v. Peter A. Fonte, 2005 WI 77, reversing unpublished decision For Fonte: Martha A. Askins, SPD, Madison Appellate Issue/Holding: Fonte’s emotionally charged statement to a police officer at the scene that he “thought the boat was out of gear,” corroborated by a companion’s “grudging admission that he had agreed that Fonte was operating the boat” is sufficient […]
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