Review of a published court of appeals decision; case activity (including briefs) Issues (composed by On Point from the PFR) Does the inevitable discovery doctrine require the State to show that information gained through police misconduct did not prompt or influence the purportedly lawful investigation? Does the inevitable discovery doctrine require the State to show that it… Read more
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Review of an unpublished per curiam court of appeals decision; case activity Issues (copied from the State’s PFR here): Crimes may be joined in one trial if they are similar or if they are connected as part of a common plan. Here, the court of appeals reversed Salinas’ conviction because it decided allegations that he… Read more
Review of an unpublished per curiam court of appeals decision; case activity Issues (derived from the court of appeals opinion): Whether, in order to get an evidentiary hearing, a defendant’s postconviction motion to withdraw his plea because he did not understand the “read-in” concept must allege that he would have pled differently if he had understood the “read-in”… Read more
Review of an unpublished per curiam court of appeals decision; affirmed 2016 WI 17; case activity (for 2014AP1248-CR, which links to the other consolidated cases) Issues (composed by On Point from the PFR) Where the State agreed to cap its sentence recommendation on four cases at the “high end” of the recommendation of the presentence investigation… Read more
Review of an unpublished court of appeals decision; affirmed 2016 WI 26; case activity (including briefs) Issues (composed by On Point) Does a defendant have the right to testify at the mental responsibility phase of a bifurcated criminal proceeding? If so, is an on-the-record colloquy regarding the waiver of the right to testify required? Lagrone didn’t… Read more
