For the respondent the cause was submitted on the brief of Keith R. Zehms, corporation counsel and Anne E. Brown, assistant corporation counsel, Eau Claire. This case is before us on a petition to review the decision of the court of appeals,[1] which affirmed the judgment of the circuit court for Eau Claire county, Gregory A.
Peterson, Judge, that S. We affirm the decision of the court of appeals. This case comes to us in a peculiar factual posture.
It did so by construing sec. Thus, it concluded that a person subject to ch. The court of appeals then examined the record and concluded that, under the standards of Pickens v. State, 96 Wis. It also held that the admission of certain evidence that was arguably hearsay was, in any event, harmless error.
The court of appeals, accordingly, affirmed the trial court's judgment of a one-year commitment that had been entered subsequent to S. Review was taken to this court by S. We first address the factual posture as developed in the trial court. It appears that S.
On September 26, , S. Prior to the pretrial hearing on September 26, three separate counsel had been assigned to represent S. He had discharged two of them prior to the pretrial, and the third was dismissed by S. At the pretrial, S.
