COURT OF APPEALS DECISION DATED AND FILED January 12, 2005 Cornelia G. Clark Clerk of Court of Appeals |
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STATE OF WISCONSIN |
IN COURT OF APPEALS |
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DISTRICT II |
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State of Wisconsin, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Marc A. Lindskog, Defendant-Appellant. |
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APPEAL from a judgment of the circuit court for Walworth County: john r. race, Judge. Affirmed.
¶1 ANDERSON, P.J.[1] Marc A. Lindskog contends that a “DUI” in Illinois cannot be counted as a prior offense in Wisconsin because it was resolved with a “supervision agreement” without the entry of a judgment of conviction. We reject his contention and affirm.
¶2 When Lindskog was arrested for drunk driving in Walworth
county, he had a similar charge pending in Illinois. By the time he appeared for sentencing in Walworth county, the
Illinois charge had been disposed of with the entry of a “supervision
agreement.” Under Illinois law,
disposition of a “DUI” by a “supervision agreement” does not require the entry
of a judgment of conviction. Lindskog
argued to the circuit court that the Illinois “DUI” could not be counted as a
prior conviction under Wisconsin’s drunk driving law because it was not a
conviction. The court rejected his
argument, reasoning that under Wis.
Stat. § 343.307(1)(d), the Illinois law permitting disposition of a
“DUI” by court supervision was sufficiently similar to Wisconsin’s drunk
driving laws. The court proceeded to
sentence Lindskog for operating while intoxicated, second offense, in violation
of Wis. Stat. §§ 346.63(1)(a)
and 346.65(2). Lindskog appeals.
¶3 Lindskog frames the question on appeal as “whether a
court-ordered ‘supervision’ for an Illinois ‘DUI’ is a ‘conviction under the
law of another jurisdiction’ that is counted as a prior offense for enhancement
purposes under Wis. Stat. § 343.307(1)(d)?”
In State v. List,
2004 WI App 230, ¶10,
No. 03-3149-CR, we affirmatively answered the same question. Because officially published opinions of the
court of appeals have statewide precedential effect, Cook v. Cook,
208 Wis. 2d 166, 186, 560 N.W.2d 246 (1997), and we are not at liberty to
overrule, modify or withdraw language from a published opinion, id. at
189-90, we will apply List to the facts of this case and affirm.
¶4 Lindskog does make an argument not addressed in List. He contends that the statute is unconstitutionally vague. He asserts that “[a] person of common intelligence could not be expected to gather from the language of the statute that even though he had no prior [operating while intoxicated (OWI)] cases resulting in conviction, he could still be charged criminally for an OWI committed in Wisconsin.”
¶5 The “void for vagueness” doctrine rests upon the constitutional principle that procedural due process requires fair notice and proper standards for adjudication. State v. Driscoll, 53 Wis. 2d 699, 701-02, 193 N.W.2d 851 (1972). The test for vagueness of a criminal statute is whether it gives reasonable notice of the prohibited conduct and its penalties. Id. at 701. We conclude that Wis. Stat. § 343.307(1)(d) survives Lindskog’s challenge because any person with common sense would know it permits counting violations, not just convictions, of other states’ statutes that prohibit the use of a motor vehicle while intoxicated. State v. White, 177 Wis. 2d 121, 126, 501 N.W.2d 463 (Ct. App. 1993) (“The current statute only requires other state statutes to prohibit the use of a motor vehicle while intoxicated.”).
By the Court.—Judgment affirmed.
This opinion will not be published. See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.23(1)(b)4.
[1] This is a one-judge appeal pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 752.31(2)(f) (2003-04). All references to the Wisconsin Statutes are to the 2003-04 version unless otherwise noted.