Sufficiency of Evidence

By: Derek Hawkins//October 5, 2016//

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WI Court of Appeals – District I

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Justin D. Wakefield

Case No.: 2015AP1685-CR; 2015AP1686-CR

Officials: Kessler and Brash, JJ., and Daniel L. LaRocque, Reserve Judge.

Focus: Sufficiency of Evidence

Justin D. Wakefield appeals judgments convicting him of substantial battery, battery to a domestic abuse injunction petitioner, intimidation of a victim, violation of a domestic abuse injunction, and misdemeanor bail jumping, all as acts of domestic abuse and all as a repeater. He also appeals the circuit court’s order denying his postconviction motion. He argues: (1) there was insufficient evidence to support the jury’s verdict on the battery charges; (2) the circuit court erred in refusing to play a jail recording of a phone call he made to I.J., the victim, in its entirety; and (3) he is entitled to a new trial in the interest of justice. We affirm

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