Sufficiency of Evidence

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WI Court of Appeals – District II

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Larry M. Shannon

Case No.: 2016AP1971-CR

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

Focus: Sufficiency of Evidence

Larry Shannon appeals from judgments convicting him of twelve counts allocated among the following crimes against three victims: first-degree sexual assault of a child, attempted first-degree intentional homicide, incest, false imprisonment, and strangulation and suffocation. On appeal, Shannon challenges the circuit court’s admission of other acts evidence and its exclusion from evidence of two articles discussing DNA evidence. We conclude that if any error occurred in the admission of the other acts evidence, such error was harmless. We further conclude that the circuit court properly exercised its discretion when it excluded the DNA evidence articles. We affirm.

A jury found Shannon guilty of twelve counts arising from a multiday rampage. The evidence at trial included the testimony and prior statements of the victims, testimony from law enforcement officers, a physician and a nurse who described the severity of the injuries Shannon inflicted, and a DNA analyst. The evidence also included testimony about other criminal acts Shannon committed in Kankakee, Illinois. On appeal, Shannon does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence of his guilt.

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