Sufficiency of Evidence

By: Derek Hawkins//December 19, 2017//

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WI Court of Appeals – District IV

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. John K. Perkins

Case No.: 2016AP2179-CR

Officials: Lundsten, P.J., Blanchard, and Fitzpatrick, JJ.

Focus: Sufficiency of Evidence

John Perkins appeals a criminal judgment convicting him of five counts of possession of child pornography. The issue on appeal is whether the police could properly rely upon certain evidence seized during a warrantless search of Perkins’s house to support the application for a subsequent warrant that was used to further search Perkins’s house. We conclude that the original evidence was legally obtained by consent and did not taint the warrant. Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of conviction.

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Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.

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