By: Derek Hawkins//December 28, 2017//
WI Court of Appeals – District IV
Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Anthony S. Taylor
Case No.: 2017AP587-CR
Officials: BLANCHARD, J.
Focus: Motion to Suppress Evidence Denied
Anthony Taylor appeals a judgment of conviction for possession of marijuana as a second or subsequent offense and the denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained during a search of an apartment unit where Taylor was staying. The search was conducted after police obtained consent to search from a resident, following a police dog alert to the presence of drugs in the unit. Taylor argues that the dog sniff was unlawful, and that the consent was not sufficiently attenuated to purge the taint of the unlawful dog sniff. Taylor also argues that consent was not voluntarily given. I assume without deciding that use of the drug-sniffing dog was unlawful, and reject Taylor’s remaining arguments. Accordingly, I affirm.