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Enhancers — § 939.62(2m), Persistent Offender — Comparable Crime, Foreign Conviction
State v. Charles J. Burroughs, 2002 WI App 18 For Burroughs: William F. Mross Issue/Holding: Burroughs’ prior conviction in Alabama for assault with intent to murder is sufficiently comparable to attempted first degree intentional homicide so as to support exposure to persistent offender sentencing, § 939.62(2m)(c). ¶¶23-27.
Due Process – Notice of Charge – Vague Charging Period
State v. James D. Miller, 2002 WI App 197, PFR filed 8/2/02 For Miller: Matthew H. Huppertz, Craig Kuhary, Daniel P. Fay Issue/Holding: The charging period of March 1, 1989, to March 31, 1993, was not too expansive to provide opportunity to prepare a defense, largely because of the victim’s youthfulness and vulnerable relationship (patient-therapist) to defendant, ¶31; […]
Equal Protection – Differential, County-Based Sentencing Guidelines
State v. Roland Smart, 2002 WI App 240, PFR filed 9/24/02 For Smart: Donald T. Lang, SPD, Madison Appellate Issue: Whether sentencing-guideline disparity for driving while intoxicated under guidelines adopted by local counties pursuant to § 346.65(2m) violates equal protection or due process. Holding: Sentencing guideline disparities need be supported only by rational basis for equal protection purposes, as […]
Enhancers — Applicability — Underlying Crime Required — Violation of Harassment Injunction (§ 813.125(4)) Subject to Enhancement
State v. Michael A. Sveum, 2002 WI App 105, PFR filed 5/10/02 For Sveum: Ian A.J. Pitz Issue/Holding: A repeater enhancement applies only to a crime, which is an offense prohibited by state law and punishable by fine and/or imprisonment. Violation of harassment injunction fits this definition and therefore supports repeater enhancement. State v. Carpenter, 179 Wis. 2d […]
Enhancers — Collateral Attack on
State v. Charles J. Burroughs, 2002 WI App 18 For Burroughs: William F. Mross Issue: Whether the record sufficiently supports Burroughs’ guilty plea on a prior offense supporting his persistent offender status. Holding: Because Burroughs doesn’t contest the fact that he was represented by counsel when he entered the plea to the prior offense, his right to […]
Enhancers — Multiple Enhancers — Computation of Maximum
State v. Paul Delao Quiroz, 2002 WI App 52 For Quiroz: Chad G. Kerkman Issue: Whether the maximum penalty for first-degree reckless endangerment of safety, enhanced by while armed and gang-related provisions, was 13 or 14 years. Holding: ¶13 … [State v. Pernell, 165 Wis. 2d 651, 656, 478 N.W.2d 297 (Ct. App. 1991)] establishes that […]
First Amendment – Child Enticement Initiated Over Internet
State v. Brian D. Robins, 2002 WI 65, on bypass For Robins: Craig W. Albee Issue: Whether prosecution for child enticement initiated over the Internet violates the first amendment. Holding: The first amendment doesn’t extend to speech that is incidental to or part of the criminal course of conduct. ¶43. The child enticement statute regulates conduct, not speech. […]
Reasonable Suspicion – Frisk – Inside Residence
State v. Jeffrey Stout, 2002 WI App 41, PFR filed 2/21/02 For Stout: James L. Fullin, Jr., SPD, Madison Appellate Issue: Whether the police had reasonable suspicion to frisk inside a residence, based on an anonymous tip of drug activity coupled with corroboration of certain details and a furtive gesture. Holding: Although investigative stops must be made […]
Costs — Travel Expense of State’s Witness
State v. Gary L. Gordon, 2002 WI App 53, reversed on other grounds, 2003 WI 69 For Gordon: Steven P. Weiss, SPD, Madison Appellate Issue/Holding: The trial court erroneously exercised discretion in imposing costs for the travel expense of an officer, in that this expense was necessitated by a change in trial date attributable primarily to the prosecution, […]
Reasonable Suspicion – Frisk – Warrant Execution – Visitor to Residence
State v. Justin Kolp, 2002 WI App 17 For Kolp: Jennifer L. Abbott Issue: Whether the police had a reasonable suspicion to frisk Kolp, when he showed up at a residence during execution of a search warrant for evidence of possession of marijuana and which authorized the search of all persons present on the premises. Holding: Given […]
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