By: Derek Hawkins//September 4, 2018//
WI Court of Appeals – District I
Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Shawn Joseph Brown-Troop
Case No.: 2017AP1254-CR
Officials: Kessler, P.J., Brash and Dugan, JJ.
Focus: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Shawn Joseph Brown-Troop appeals from a judgment, entered upon a jury’s verdicts, convicting him on two counts of armed robbery with the threat of force as a party to a crime. Brown-Troop also appeals from an order that denied his postconviction motion without a hearing. Brown-Troop alleges multiple instances of ineffective assistance from trial counsel and he claims the trial court erred when it denied his request for a new lawyer on the first day of trial. We conclude that trial counsel was not ineffective in his representation of Brown-Troop and that the trial court properly exercised its discretion relative to his request for new counsel and an evidentiary hearing. We therefore affirm the judgment and order.