By: Derek Hawkins//August 14, 2018//
WI Court of Appeals – District IV
Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Julian G. Thomas
Case No.: 2017AP621-CR
Officials: Sherman, Blanchard and Fitzpatrick, JJ.
Focus: Motion to Suppress Evidence Denied
The State appeals a decision of the Dane County Circuit Court granting Julian Thomas’s motion to suppress evidence collected during a search of Thomas’s living quarters by probation agents. The circuit court concluded that the search was an unconstitutional police search rather than a probation search. We disagree with the circuit court and conclude that the search of the house in which Thomas was then living was a probation search and that the search was reasonable. In addition, we conclude that Thomas has failed to support an argument that the method of entry to the residence was improper. As a result, we reverse the circuit court’s order and remand the matter for further proceedings.