Criminal Procedure — Confrontation Clause — exculpatory evidence

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Wisconsin Court of Appeals

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Criminal Procedure — Confrontation Clause — exculpatory evidence

Antonio D. Williams appeals the judgment entered on a jury verdict convicting him of four counts of first-degree intentional homicide, see Wis. Stat. § 940.01(1)(a), as party to a crime, see Wis. Stat. § 939.05. He also appeals the trial court’s denial of his motion for postconviction relief. He argues here that: (1) the trial court improperly limited cross-examination of the State’s witnesses who testified as “cooperating” witnesses; (2) the trial court erred when it let the State use the contents of a letter found in Williams’s jail cell to impeach his alibi witness; (3) the trial court should have granted his request for a mistrial made after the State asked a defense witness about seeing Williams with an assault weapon a year before these shootings; (4) the State violated Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), by not giving Williams a report listing names of people whose identification cards were scanned in at a bar where two State witnesses reported seeing one of Williams’s co-actors the night of the shooting, because the report did not list the names of the co-actors and one of the witnesses; and (5) we should reverse under Wis. Stat. § 752.35 because the cumulative effect of all these errors prevented Williams from “fully and fairly” presenting the “real controversy.” We affirm. Publication in the official reports is not recommended.

2013AP814-CR State v. Williams

Dist I, Milwaukee County, Dallet, J., Fine, J.

Attorneys: For Appellant: Provis, Timothy A., Port Washington; For Respondent: Loebel, Karen A., Milwaukee; Probst, Robert, Madison