Guilty Plea

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WI Court of Appeals – District III

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Miguel A.F. Navarro

Case No.: 2022AP000578-CR

Officials: Stark, P.J., Hruz and Gill, JJ.

Focus: Guilty Plea

The State charged Navarro with first-degree intentional homicide and mayhem based on allegations that Navarro fatally attacked a co-worker with a circular saw. Two witnesses observed the attack, and Navarro confessed to the attack during a recorded jail call.

Navarro appeals from a judgment convicting him of first-degree reckless homicide, as charged in an amended Information pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement. Navarro contends that the circuit court erroneously exercised its discretion by denying his motion to change his pleas on two different charges in the original Information from not guilty to not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect (NGI). The appeals court concludes that Navarro forfeited his right to review of the NGI-plea issue by entering a guilty plea to the amended charge; and further declines to exercise its discretion to review the forfeited issue.

Affirmed.

Decided 07/25/23

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