Ineffective Assistance of Counsel – Motion to Suppress

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WI Court of Appeals – District I

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Gregory Tyson Below

Case No.: 2014AP2614-CR; 2014AP2615-CR; 2014AP2516-CR

Officials: Curley, P.J., Kessler, J., and Daniel L. LaRocque, Reserve Judge.

Practice Area: General Appeal – Ineffective Assistance of Counsel – Motion to Suppress

J. Gregory T. Below appeals a judgment of conviction and an order denying his postconviction motion following a three-week jury trial. The jury reached verdicts on forty-one felony charges involving nine women. It found Below guilty of twenty-nine charges, including kidnapping, strangulation and suffocation, sexual assault, substantial battery, reckless injury, and one count of solicitation of prostitutes. It acquitted him of twelve other similar felony counts. Below seeks a new trial on four claims of trial court error: 1) denial of his motion for severance (separate trials); 2) denial of his claim of ineffective trial counsel; 3) denial of his motion to suppress evidence seized with a search warrant; and 4) denial of his motion for an in camera inspection of a victim’s mental health treatment records. We affirm the judgment and order of the circuit court for the reasons stated herein.

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