By: Derek Hawkins//October 11, 2017//
WI Court of Appeals – District III
Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Michael J. Mansfield
Case No.: 2016AP2423-CR
Officials: STARK, P.J.
Focus: Motion to Suppress Evidence Denied
Michael Mansfield appeals a judgment convicting him of third-offense operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated (OWI). He challenges the circuit court’s denial of his suppression motions on three grounds: (1) law enforcement lacked reasonable suspicion to perform a traffic stop; (2) after Mansfield was stopped, law enforcement lacked reasonable suspicion to frisk him for weapons; and (3) Wisconsin’s implied consent statute is inherently coercive, thereby rendering his consent to a blood draw involuntary and the implied consent statute facially unconstitutional. We reject Mansfield’s arguments and affirm.