By: Derek Hawkins//January 10, 2018//
WI Court of Appeals – District I
Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Kyle Austin Sewell
Case No.: 2017AP174-CR; 2017AP175-CR
Officials: Brennan, P.J., Kessler and Dugan, JJ.
Focus: Sentence Modification – Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
In these consolidated appeals, Kyle Austin Sewell appeals from judgments of conviction for one count of strangulation and suffocation and one count of felony intimidation of a witness, both as acts of domestic abuse and as a repeater. See WIS. STAT. §§ 940.235(1), 940.43(7), 973.055(1), and 939.62(1)(b) (2015-16). Sewell also appeals from the denial of his postconviction motion. At issue on appeal is whether Sewell is entitled to resentencing or sentence modification based on an inaccurate representation made by his trial counsel at sentencing concerning the date Sewell would finish serving his preexisting criminal sentences in three prior cases. We affirm.