By: Derek Hawkins//May 3, 2017//
WI Court of Appeals – District IV
Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Noah M. Sanders
Case No.: 2016AP2387-CR
Officials: Blanchard, J.
Focus: Court Error – Plea Withdrawal
Noah Sanders appeals a judgment convicting him of four misdemeanors: two counts of intimidation of a victim and two counts of contact with the same victim after a domestic abuse arrest. The judgment was entered after the circuit court accepted Sanders’ guilty pleas to these charges, together with other charges in other cases, at a single hearing. Sanders also appeals the order denying his post-conviction request to withdraw the two pleas to intimidation of a victim, on the ground that the circuit court erred in determining that there was a sufficient factual basis to support these two pleas. I conclude that the court properly exercised its discretion in denying the post-conviction motion and accordingly affirm that decision and the judgment of conviction