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WI Court of Appeals Digest

Nov 10, 2020

Ordinance Interpretation – Parking

Jill Dahlquist appeals from an order determining that she violated a Village of Chenequa no parking ordinance.

Nov 10, 2020

Statutory Interpretation – Public Records – Attorney Fees

This is a public records case involving a draft contract, exchanged between Defendant-Respondent City of Waukesha (the City) and a private entity, Big Top Baseball, LLC (Big Top), setting forth proposed terms under which Big Top’s professional baseball team would play in a stadium to be constructed in Waukesha’s Frame Park.

Nov 10, 2020

Court Error – Other-acts Evidence

Nikola Stevlic appeals from a judgment convicting him of two counts of second-degree sexual assault by use of force; false imprisonment; two counts of substantial battery intending bodily harm; second-degree recklessly endangering safety, all with a domestic-abuse penalty enhancer; and exposing a child to harmful descriptions.

Nov 10, 2020

Plea Withdrawal – Evidentiary Hearing

Cortez Lorenzo Toliver appeals pro se from a circuit court order denying his WIS. STAT. § 974.06 (2017-18) postconviction motion without a hearing.

Nov 10, 2020

Court Error – Abuse of Discretion

Daniel Hennessy and Jane Hennessy appeal a circuit court order finding that a Mexican court judgment against the Hennessys is valid under Mexican law, and determining that Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., is entitled to domesticate the Mexican judgment in Milwaukee County Circuit Court, giving it effect in Wisconsin under principles of comity.

Nov 10, 2020

Court Error – Certiorari Review – Standing to Sue

Friends of the Black River Forest and Claudia Bricks (collectively referred to herein as the Friends) appeal the dismissals of their challenges to a land exchange that took place between Kohler Company (Kohler) and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (the Department).

Nov 4, 2020

Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

John Swapsy was convicted in the Dane County Circuit Court, following a jury trial, of one count of arson of a building, contrary to WIS. STAT. § 943.02(1)(a) (2013-14).

Nov 4, 2020

Plea Colloquy

Victoria Conley entered a plea of no contest to a single count of disorderly conduct as a criminal offense.

Nov 4, 2020

Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

Moeun Mao appeals a judgment convicting him of two counts of sexual assault for having sexual intercourse with and impregnating a developmentally disabled sixteen-year-old female, G.S.K., and an order denying his postconviction motion seeking a new trial due to the ineffective assistance of trial counsel, plain error, and in the interest of justice.

Nov 4, 2020

Unlawful-stop Claim – Reasonable Suspicion

James E. Brown appeals a judgment of conviction, following a guilty plea, of one count of carrying a concealed weapon.

Nov 3, 2020

Unlawful-stop Claim – Reasonable Suspicion

Andrew W. Bunn, pro se, appeals the judgment of conviction, following guilty pleas, to two counts of carrying a concealed weapon.

Nov 3, 2020

Summary Judgment – Adverse Possession

Timothy Casa De Calvo, Jr., appeals a summary judgment dismissing his adverse possession claim against the Town of Hudson.

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