Byline: Derek Hawkins
WI Supreme Court
Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Jacob Richard Beyer
Case No.: 2021 WI 59
Focus: Certification Question Guilty-plea-waiver Rule
This case is before us on certification from the court of appeals pursuant to Wis. Stat. (Rule) 809.61 (2019-20). The certified issue is: "whether the guilty-plea-waiver rule applies when a defendant pleads not guilty to an offense, but stipulates to the inculpatory facts supporting each element of the offense, and explicitly...