By: Derek Hawkins//January 18, 2017//
WI Court of Appeals – District II
Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Jamal Thams
Case No.: 2016AP192-CR
Officials: Neubauer, C.J., Reilly, P.J., and Hagedorn, J
Focus: Sentencing – Excessive Sentence
Jamal Thames appeals from an amended judgment convicting him of false imprisonment with domestic abuse and repeater enhancers and ordering restitution and from an order denying his postconviction motion challenging his sentence and restitution order. He argues that his near-maximum sentence is unduly harsh and resulted from the trial court’s improper focus on stale and “confused” facts and that the ordered restitution is excessive, as some of it stems from a preexisting condition of the victim unrelated to the instant offense. We disagree and affirm.