State v. Christopher Gammons, 2001 WI App 36 For Gammons: Keith A. Findley, LAIP Issue: Whether, following stop of a car which seemed not to have plates, identification-related investigation of passenger is permissible once the officer discovers proof (display of temporary sticker) that there is in fact no apparent violation of registration laws. Holding: A lawful… Read more
1. Stops, in general
State v. Terry Griffith, 2000 WI 72, 236 Wis. 2d 48, 613 N.W.2d 72, affirming unpublished decision of court of appeals For Griffith: Paul G. LaZotte Issue: Whether the police lacked authority to ask the name and birth date of a passenger of a lawfully stopped car. Holding: The police may request identifying information from passengers during traffic stops… Read more
State v. Bruce E. Black, 2000 WI App 175, 238 Wis.2d 203, 617 N.W.2d 210 For Black: William E. Schmaal, SPD, Madison Appellate Issue: Whether the “collective knowledge” doctrine applies when the information in the possession of one police officer is not in fact communicated to another officer. Holding: ¶17 n. 4: (I)n order for the… Read more
State v. Michael A. Sisk, 2001 WI App 182 For Sisk: Elvis Banks Issue: Whether the police had reasonable suspicion to stop, based on information from a 911 call made from a payphone by an informant who provided nothing other than a name by way of identifying himself. Holding: ¶8. Here, because the caller gave what… Read more
State v. Lawrence J. Fields, 2000 WI App 218, 239 Wis.2d 38, 619 N.W.2d 279 For Fields: Daniel Goggin Issue: Whether the police stop of a car, merely because it had lingered at a stop sign for a few seconds, was supported by reasonable suspicion. Holding: To ask the question is to answer it. This was… Read more
Reasonable Suspicion – Stop – Basis – Warrant Execution – leaving house where warrant being executed
State v. Louis Taylor, 226 Wis.2d 490, 595 N.W.2d 56 (Ct. App. 1999) For Taylor: Donald T. Lang, SPD, Madison Appellate. Holding: Taylor walked out the back door as police were knocking on the front door to execute a warrant for someone else, in an area described as “high drug … high gang.” The police were… Read more
State v. Curtis M. Agacki, 226 Wis.2d 349, 595 N.W.2d 31 (Ct. App. 1999) For Agacki: John M. Carroll. Issue: “(W)hether whether the psychotherapist-patient privilege can prevent a police officer, at a suppression motion hearing, from testifying about a psychotherapist’s account of a patient’s disclosure, which provided the basis for the officer’s probable cause to search… Read more
State v. Christopher E. Betow, 226 Wis.2d 90, 593 N.W.2d 499 (Ct. App. 1999) For Betow: James C. Murray Issue/Holding: The police didn’t have reasonable suspicion to extend a routine stop for speeding based on the following: the driver’s wallet was adorned with a picture of a mushroom, coupled with the officer’s experience that the depiction… Read more
