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State justices agree to take on 3 new cases

By: Eric Heisig//February 27, 2014//

State justices agree to take on 3 new cases

By: Eric Heisig//February 27, 2014//

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The state Supreme Court announced Thursday it has taken up three cases for review.

They are:

State v. Andres Romero-Georgana, which involves a defendant’s claim that his postconviction counsel provided ineffective assistance by challenging the circuit court’s sentencing decision rather than raising a plea withdrawal claim based on the circuit court’s failure to orally advise the defendant of the deportation consequences of his no-contest plea.

State v. Myrick, a homicide case involving two defendants, one of whom testified against the other as part of what he contends was a plea agreement with prosecutors. The question is whether statements made by defendant Rapheal Lyfold Myrick during testimony at the preliminary examination stage of Justin Winston’s case are then admissible in the case against Myrick himself.

State v. Anderson, a homicide case that examines the discretionary power of the Court of Appeals to grant a new insanity phase trial on the ground that an allegedly harmless error in a jury instruction prevented the real controversy from being fully tried.

The court also denied review to 57 cases. Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson and Justice Ann Walsh Bradley dissented on denying review to two Milwaukee County cases: State v. Marshall and State v. Rodriguiez-Faustino. Abrahamson was the sole dissenter on denying review to an Outagamie County case (State v. Huss).

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