State Supreme Court accepts three cases for review

By: Eric Heisig//August 14, 2014//

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The state Supreme Court announced Thursday that it has accepted three cases for review.

• State v. Anthony deals with when a trial court may deny a defendant the right to testify and the standard by which the Court of Appeals should review that determination.

• Anderson v. Aul examines two questions arising from a dispute over legal malpractice insurance coverage: whether Wis. Stat. §§ 631.81(1) and 632.26(2) require “occurrence” coverage; and whether requiring an insurer to provide coverage for a claim that is not within the scope of the policy’s insuring agreement prejudices the insurer.

• State v. Griep is a drunken driving cases that examines whether the Confrontation Clause prohibits a surrogate witness – in this case a crime lab section chief who did not personally conduct or observe lab work – from testifying regarding a nontestifying lab analyst’s procedures and conclusions.

The court also denied review of 90 cases. Follow @eheisigWLJ

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