Pleas & Sentencing – Sentence Modification

By: Derek Hawkins//October 14, 2020//

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WI Court of Appeals – District II

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Sherri L. Blackshear

Case No.: 2019AP757-CR

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

Focus: Pleas & Sentencing – Sentence Modification

Sherri Blackshear appeals from a judgment convicting her on her guilty plea to delivery of heroin (< 3 grams) as a second or subsequent offense and as a repeat offender resulting from a purchase involving a confidential informant (CI) working with the Kenosha Drug Operation Group. A second similar count was dismissed and read in. Postconviction, Blackshear sought to withdraw her guilty plea based on defense counsel’s alleged ineffectiveness for not advising her that she might have pursued an entrapment defense and for not more diligently seeking discoverable telephone records between her and the CI. She also moved for sentence modification for having been deemed ineligible for the Earned Release Program (ERP) and appeals from the order denying those motions. We affirm.

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Derek A Hawkins is trademark corporate counsel for Harley-Davidson. Hawkins oversees the prosecution and maintenance of the Harley-Davidson’s international trademark portfolio in emerging markets.

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