Motion to Suppress Evidence Denied

By: Derek Hawkins//July 10, 2018//

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WI Court of Appeals – District IV

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Kristopher Arnold Leitzinger

Case No.: 2017AP2268-CR

Officials: Lundsten, P.J., Sherman and Kloppenburg, JJ.

Focus: Motion to Suppress Evidence Denied

Kristopher Leitzinger appeals a judgment of conviction. The dispositive issue is whether his suppression motion should have been granted because police lacked a legal basis to continue the investigatory stop after seeing that the person they wanted to speak to was not in the vehicle. We conclude that the motion should have been granted, and we reverse.

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