Sufficiency of Evidence

By: Derek Hawkins//May 9, 2018//

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WI Court of Appeals – District IV

Case Name: Portage County v. J.W.K.

Case No.: 2017AP2429

Officials: BLANCHARD, J.

Focus: Sufficiency of Evidence

J.W.K. appeals an order extending his involuntary commitment by 12 months. J.W.K. argues that Portage County failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence that J.W.K. would be a proper subject for commitment under WIS. STAT. ch. 51 if his treatment were to be withdrawn, and therefore the circuit court erred in extending J.W.K.’s commitment. I conclude that the evidence presented at J.W.K.’s recommitment hearing, and the circuit court’s findings based on that evidence, support extending the commitment, and accordingly affirm.

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