RES – sufficiency of the evidence

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Wisconsin Court of Appeals

Criminal

RES – sufficiency of the evidence

APPEAL from a judgment of the circuit court for Racine County: WAYNE J. MARIK and EUGENE A. GASIORKIEWICZ, Judges. Affirmed.

A jury found Sean Riker guilty of five counts of physical abuse of a child, three counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety, two counts of causing mental harm to a child, and one count each of strangulation and suffocation, misdemeanor battery, repeated sexual assault of a child, first-degree sexual assault of a child, possession of a firearm by a felon, and possession of a short-barreled rifle. All carried a repeater penalty enhancer. The court imposed consecutive sentences on the sixteen counts for a total sentence of 269 years.[1] Riker contends he merits resentencing because insufficient evidence supported the jury verdicts on the three counts of reckless endangerment, two of the five counts of physical abuse of a child, and the causing-mental-harm-to-a-child and sexual-assault counts. We disagree and affirm the judgment.

DISTRICT II; Racine County; WAYNE J. MARIK; EUGENE A. GASIORKIEWICZ; Brown, C.J., Neubauer, P.J., Gundrum, J.

2013AP002541-CR State v. Sean A. Riker

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