Sufficiency of Evidence

By: Derek Hawkins//May 16, 2018//

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WI Court of Appeals – District II

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Andy J. Parisi

Case No.: 2016AP1945-CR

Officials: Neubauer, C.J., Gundrum and Hagedorn, JJ.

Focus: Sufficiency of Evidence

Andrew J. Parisi appeals a judgment entered after a jury found him guilty of ten drug-related offenses occurring on two separate occasions and an order denying his postconviction motion for a new trial. Parisi maintains that he is entitled to a new trial on the seven convictions predicated on his delivery of heroin to other inmates while in jail because the circuit court erred in declining to admit evidence that another inmate delivered heroin in the jail prior to Parisi’s arrival. Because we conclude that the circuit court properly exercised its discretion in excluding the proffered evidence, we affirm.

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