Pleas & Sentencing – Plea Withdrawal

By: Derek Hawkins//November 18, 2015//

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WI Court of Appeals – District II

Officials: Neubauer, C.J., Reilly, P.J., and Gundrum, J.

Pleas & Sentencing – Plea Withdrawal

2015AP26-CR; 2015AP27-CR; 2015AP28-CR State of Wisconsin v. Jason A. Sodemann

Jason A. Sodemann pled no contest to three counts of burglary as a repeater and one count of robbery with use of force. He asks that we allow him to withdraw his pleas, reverse the judgments of conviction and the order denying his motion for postconviction relief, and remand for reinstatement of the original charges in the three underlying cases and for further proceedings. The gist of his claim is that his two appointed attorneys rendered ineffective assistance, the first by failing to seek a proffer, or limited immunity, agreement before Sodemann voluntarily gave an inculpatory interview to police, and the second, assuming the first’s ineffectiveness, by failing to move to dismiss the case or to suppress the unprotected statement. We disagree and affirm.

Affirmed.

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