Court Error – Motion to Suppress Evidence Denied
Samuel Silverstein appeals from a judgment of conviction, entered on his guilty plea, for three counts of possession of child pornography.
Plea Withdrawal
Anthony Germaine Griffis appeals from a judgment of conviction, entered upon his guilty pleas, on one count of robbery with the use of force and one count of taking and driving a vehicle without the owner’s consent, both as a party to a crime.
Foreclosure – Subject Matter and Personal Jurisdiction
Brian and Becky Bonkoski, pro se, appeal a judgment of foreclosure on their residential real estate.
4th Amendment – Search & Seizure
Derron Hudson challenges the scope and duration of a traffic stop that led to his conviction for possession of cocaine, second or subsequent offense.
Court Error – Abuse of Discretion
Scott Frolik and Richard Busch, Jr., appeal a judgment in favor of Dale Schuebel entered upon a jury verdict finding Schuebel adversely possessed a disputed portion of Frolik’s and Busch’s properties.
Court Error – Motion to Suppress
Kawane J. Stroyier appeals from a judgment of conviction, entered upon a jury’s verdicts, on one count of homicide by negligent handling of a dangerous weapon and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon.
Court Error – Abuse of Discretion
Brian Cooper appeals an amended judgment of conviction entered following a jury trial for two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and one count of third-degree sexual assault.
Denial of Burial Sites Permit
This appeal is the second case concerning two Native American effigy mounds called the Ward Mound Group (the Ward Mounds), which were added to the catalog of burial sites by the Director of the State Historical Society in 1991 pursuant to WIS. STAT. § 157.70(2) (2015-16).
Insurance Coverage – Synthetic Stucco Exclusion
This is an insurance coverage dispute between a condominium association and the insurer of a general contractor involving the proper interpretation of a synthetic stucco exclusion in a commercial general liability (CGL) insurance policy.
Abuse of Discretion – Sufficency of Evidence
This appeal concerns Wisconsin’s Burial Sites Preservation statute, WIS. STAT. § 157.70 (2015-16), which requires the Director of the State Historical Society to “identify and record in a catalog burial sites in this state and … sufficient contiguous land necessary to protect the burial site from disturbance.”
Fourth Amendment Violation – Voting Registration
This is a case of wait‐and‐hurry‐up, rather than its more familiar cousin, hurry‐up‐and‐wait.
Abuse of Discretion
Plaintiff‐appellee Peter Koehn filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that Defendants‐appellants Lauri Tobias and Margaret Segerston (Defendants), his former employers, unlawfully retaliated against him for exercising his First Amendment rights.
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