By: Derek Hawkins//June 6, 2018//
WI Court of Appeals – District I
Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. William Canales, Jr.
Case No.: 2017AP742-CR
Officials: Brennan, P.J., Kessler and Brash, JJ.
Focus: Motion to Suppress Denied
William Canales, Jr. appeals from his judgment of conviction, entered by the trial court upon accepting his guilty plea for one count of possession with intent to deliver between ten and fifty grams of heroin and one count of possession with intent to deliver more than forty grams of cocaine, both as second or subsequent offenses.
Canales appeals the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress the evidence that was obtained after a second search warrant was executed at his residence. He argues that the second warrant was based on illegally-obtained statements he made while in custody. The trial court did indeed find that there were illegally-obtained statements included in the affidavit prepared in support of the second warrant; however, the court determined that after those statements were stricken, the information remaining in the affidavit was sufficient to establish probable cause for issuing the warrant. We affirm.