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Use of a computer to facilitate a sex crime – Computer

By: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF//March 17, 2015//

Use of a computer to facilitate a sex crime – Computer

By: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF//March 17, 2015//

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Wisconsin Court of Appeals

Criminal

Use of a computer to facilitate a sex crime – Computer

A cell phone can never constitute a computerized communication system, under sec. 948.075

“The jury was asked whether McKellips’ cell phone, itself, constituted a computerized communication system. Instead, the court should have asked the jury whether McKellips’ various alleged uses of the cell phone constituted communication via a computerized communication system. This question was the primary issue at trial. We therefore conclude the real controversy was not tried, and we grant McKellips a new trial in the interest of justice.”

Reversed and Remanded.

Recommended for publication in the official reports.

2014AP827-CR State v. McKellips

Dist. III, Marathon County, Moran, J., Hoover, J.

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