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SVP – Qualifying Placement, § 980.02(2)(ag) – Secure Facility, Juvenile Adjudication
State v. Tremaine Y., 2005 WI App 56, PFR filed 3/4/05 For Tremaine: Robert W. Peterson, Samantha Jeanne Humes, SPD, Milwaukee TrialI Issue: Whether a ch. 980 petition is supported against a juvenile who was not placed in a secured correctional facility following the original adjudication on the qualifying sexually violent offense but was subsequently placed in […]
Evidence, Admissibility – Sufficiency of Objection
State v. Van G. Norwood, 2005 WI App 218 For Norwood: Terry Evans Williams Issue: Whether objection to admissibility of a defendant’s statement on the ground that it was “an offer of settlement” (which thus raised a § 904.08 bar) sufficed to raise a § 904.10 objection of an inadmissible offer to plead guilty. Holding: […]
Serial Litigation Bar (Escalona-Naranjo): Applicable to No-Merit Report, § 809.32 (Anders Appeal)
State v. Christopher G. Tillman, 2005 WI App 71 Tillman, pro se Issue/Holding: ¶2. The issue on the instant appeal is whether the procedural bar of Escalona-Naranjo may be applied when a prior appeal was processed under the no merit procedure set forth in Wis. Stat. Rule 809.32. For the reasons stated below, we conclude […]
No-Merit Appeal: Generally
State v. Christopher G. Tillman, 2005 WI App 71 Tillman, pro se Issue/Holding: ¶16. The no merit appeal procedure has its genesis in Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), and is codified in Wis. Stat. Rule 809.32. … Any motion to withdraw pursuant to Anders “necessarily implicates the merits of an appeal, because the […]
Certiorari — Availability
State ex rel. David C. Myers v. Swenson, 2004 WI App 224 For Myers: Christopher T. Sundberg; Bruce D. Huibregtse Issue/Holding: ¶8 Myers appears to argue that the Wisconsin courts retain the ability to conduct certiorari review of a Wisconsin inmate’s due process or equal protection challenge to a disciplinary action, even if the challenge […]
Certiorari – Judicial Act – Review Limited to Determining Tribunal’s Jurisdiction
State v. Christopher Swiams, 2004 WI App 217, District 1, 10/19/04 (published); case activity Issue/Holding: ¶8. … The State contends, however, that reconfinement orders may only be reviewed via common-law certiorari and not under Wis. Stat. Rule 809.30. It relies on State v. Bridges, 195 Wis. 2d 254, 536 N.W.2d 153 (Ct. App. 1995) (per […]
SVP – Disposition: Supervised Release – Revocation – Sufficiency of Evidence
State v. Ervin Burris, 2004 WI 91, affirming 2002 WI App 262, 258 Wis. 2d. 454, 654 N.W.2d 866 For Burris: Joseph L. Sommers Issue/Holding: ¶73. Judge Welker found that Burris disregarded the rules of his supervised release in order to satisfy his compulsive urges. Burris consumed alcohol, a drug that lowers inhibitions. He abused […]
Enlargement of Direct Appeal Deadline Based on Ineffective Assistance of Counsel – Habeas As Exclusive Mechanism
State v. Iran D. Evans, 2004 WI 84, reversing unpublished decision of court of appeals For Evans: Robert R. Henak Issue/Holding: The petition for writ of habeas corpus procedure mandated by State v. Knight, 168 Wis. 2d 509, 522, 484 N.W.2d 540 (1992) is the exclusive mechanism for seeking reinstatement of direct appeal deadlines lost on account of […]
Appellate Procedure: Finality of Order
Derek J. Harder v. Carol L. Pfitzinger, 2004 WI 102 Issue/Holding: ¶15. If there are no further documents in the circuit court’s file and all substantive issues have been decided for one or more parties in an order or a judgment, there is usually less confusion about whether the time for appeal has begun to […]
Sentence Credit – SVP (Ch. 980) Custody
State ex rel. Michael J. Thorson v. Schwarz, 2004 WI 96, reconsideration denied, 2004 133, affirming unpublished decision of court of appeals For Thorson: Jefren E. Olsen, SPD, Madison Appellate Issue/Holding: Time spent in detention during ch. 980 proceedings may not be credited toward service of the underlying criminal sentence. ¶¶29-38. Thorson was serving a sentence for a 980-qualifying […]
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