2005 WI 63

 

 

Supreme Court of Wisconsin

 

 


 

 

 

Case No.:

2003AP1878-CR

 

 

Complete Title:

 

 

State of Wisconsin,

          Plaintiff-Respondent,

     v.

Henry G. Wagner,

          Defendant-Appellant-Petitioner.

 

 

 

 

REVIEW OF A DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS

(no cite)

 

 

Opinion Filed:

June 2, 2005 

Submitted on Briefs:

      

Oral Argument:

March 30, 2005 

 

 

Source of Appeal:

 

 

Court:

Circuit 

 

County:

Milwaukee 

 

Judge:

Richard J. Sankovitz 

 

 

 

Justices:

 

 

Concurred:

      

 

Dissented:

      

 

Not Participating:

      

 

 

 

Attorneys:

 


For the defendant-appellant-petitioner, there were briefs by John T. Wasielewski and Wasielewski & Erickson, Milwaukee, and oral argument by John T. Wasielewski.

 

For the plaintiff-respondent, the cause was argued by Jeffrey J. Kassel, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was Peggy A. Lautenschlager, attorney general.

 

 


2005 WI 63


notice

This opinion is subject to further editing and modification.  The final version will appear in the bound volume of the official reports. 

No.  2003AP1878-CR

(L.C. No.

01CF5884)

STATE OF WISCONSIN                   :

IN SUPREME COURT

 

 

State of Wisconsin,

 

          Plaintiff-Respondent,

 

     v.

 

Henry G. Wagner,

 

          Defendant-Appellant-Petitioner.

 

 

 

FILED

 

  JUN 2, 2005

 

Cornelia G. Clark

Clerk of Supreme Court

 

 

 

 

 


REVIEW of a decision of the Court of Appeals.  Dismissed as improvidently granted. 

 

1     PER CURIAM.     Henry G. Wagner petitioned for review of the court of appeals' summary disposition, State v. Wagner, No. 2003AP1878-CR, unpublished order (Wis. Ct. App. August 27, 2004), that affirmed a judgment convicting Wagner of one count of armed robbery.  The court of appeals concluded that statements made by Wagner while the West Allis Police Department officers were booking him fell within the routine booking exception to Miranda.[1]

2     We accepted review to determine the scope of the "booking exception" to the requirement that police give Miranda warnings prior to questioning a suspect while in custody.  After examining the record and the briefs of the parties, and after hearing oral argument, we conclude that the petition for review was improvidently granted.  Because it is not clear whether the officer limited the questioning to the booking form or whether follow-up questions were asked, and because the record is silent as to which of Wagner's statements were volunteered or in response to police questioning, we conclude that this case does not present the issue for which we granted review; therefore, we dismiss the petition for review.

By the Court.—The review of the decision of the court of appeals is dismissed as improvidently granted.

 

 

 


 

 

 



[1] Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966).