State v. Ryan D. Wilkie, 2022AP730-CR, 3/11/25, District III (1-judge decision, ineligible for publication); case activity COA rejects Wilkie’s interesting constitutional arguments regarding the authority of law enforcement to enter his home without a warrant and affirms his conviction for obstructing an officer. Police were called to Wilkie’s home after a 911 caller heard what… Read more
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COA affirms order declaring mistrial when prosecutor learned she had COVID after first day of trial.
State v. Cesar O. Fernandez-Reyes, 2024AP1668-CR, 3/4/25, District III (not recommended for publication); case activity COA affirms circuit court’s order declaring a mistrial and denying the defendant’s motion to bar a retrial on double jeopardy grounds where prosecutor learned she had COVID after the first day of trial. Cesar Fernandez-Reyes’s trial on two counts of… Read more
State v. Peter John Long, 2023AP2300, 2/26/25 District II (one-judge decision; ineligible for publication); case activity Long appeals pro se from his refusal conviction, contending the officer lacked probable cause to arrest for OWI. COA affirms. The officer was the only witness at Long’s refusal hearing. Police found a motorcycle that appeared to have crashed… Read more
Sheboygan County v. L.L., 2024AP1443, 2/26/25, District II (1-judge decision, ineligible for publication); case activity COA confronts the usual challenges to a recommitment order and affirms based on a somewhat novel legal theory–that L.L.’s earlier stipulation to a commitment order undermines her sufficiency challenge to the recommitment. D.J.W. Claim “Lucy” first attacks her recommitment order… Read more
While we don’t usually cover SCOTUS’s order list unless there’s something special going on, the most recent order clocked in at nearly 60 pages and featured a number of interesting dissents that we thought our readers would be intrigued by. First off, everyone’s favorite topic: restitution. Justice Gorsuch, a sometimes unpredictable member of the court’s… Read more
There has been a real paucity of relevant cases from the Seventh. We keep saving this article and hoping more could be added, but until things heat up again, we thought we’d share these cases from the last few months that might be relevant to our readers. United States of America v. Charles House, No. 23-1950… Read more
With a new administration comes changes to our immigration laws. Fortunately, the SPD’s Immigration Practice Coordinators are here to provide you with an updated analysis of the many legal developments relevant to our clients. This guest post was authored by Kate Drury and Melissa Nepomiachi. It’s impossible to pick up the newspaper today and not… Read more
State v. Adams, 2023AP218-CR, petition for review of a published decision of the court of appeals, granted 2/12/25; case activity SCOW grants Adams’s petition for review in part and signifies its interest in bringing clarity to an important procedural aspect of reverse waiver hearings. UPDATE: On March 5, 2025, the Wisconsin Supreme Court granted Adams’s request… Read more
