Case Title: State v. Lucian Agnello

Citation: 2003 WI 44

Docket Number: 2000AP002599-CR

State: wisconsin

Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court

Date: 2003-05-22T00:00:00Z

Document:
2003 WI 44 
 
 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
CASE NO.: 
00-2599-CR 
 
 
COMPLETE TITLE: 
 
 
State of Wisconsin,  
 
Plaintiff-Respondent, 
 
v. 
Lucian Agnello,  
 
Defendant-Appellant. 
 
 
 
 
ON CERTIFICATION FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS 
 
 
OPINION FILED: 
May 22, 2003 
SUBMITTED ON BRIEFS: 
        
ORAL ARGUMENT: 
December 6, 2002   
 
 
SOURCE OF APPEAL: 
 
 
COURT: 
Circuit   
 
COUNTY: 
Milwaukee   
 
JUDGE: 
Elsa C. Lamelas   
 
 
 
JUSTICES: 
 
 
CONCURRED: 
        
 
DISSENTED: 
        
 
NOT PARTICIPATING: SYKES, J., did not participate.   
 
 
 
ATTORNEYS: 
 
For the defendant-appellant there were briefs by Jerome F. 
Buting and Buting & Williams, S.C., Brookfield, and oral 
argument by Jerome F. Buting. 
 
For the plaintiff-respondent the cause was argued by 
Gregory M. Weber, assistant attorney general, with whom on the 
brief was James E. Doyle, attorney general. 
 
 
2003 WI 44 
NOTICE 
This opinion is subject to further 
editing and modification.  The final 
version will appear in the bound 
volume of the official reports.   
No. 00-2599-CR    
(L.C. No. 
96 CF 961035) 
STATE OF WISCONSIN  
 
 
   : 
IN SUPREME COURT 
 
 
State of Wisconsin,  
 
          Plaintiff-Respondent, 
 
     v. 
 
Lucian Agnello,  
 
          Defendant-Appellant. 
 
FILED 
 
MAY 22, 2003 
 
Cornelia G. Clark 
Clerk of Supreme Court 
 
 
 
 
 
APPEAL from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Milwaukee 
County, Elsa C. Lamelas, Judge.  Order granting certification 
vacated and cause remanded to the Court of Appeals. 
 
¶1 
PER CURIAM.   The court is equally divided on whether 
to affirm or reverse the judgment of the circuit court for 
Milwaukee County.  Justice William A. Bablitch, Justice Jon P. 
Wilcox, and Justice N. Patrick Crooks would affirm.  Chief 
Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, and 
Justice David T. Prosser would reverse.  Justice Diane S. Sykes 
did not participate. 
¶2 
When a certification or bypass results in a tie vote 
by this court, the better course of action is to vacate our 
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decision to accept certification or bypass and remand the cause 
to the court of appeals.  State v. Watson, 209 Wis. 2d 281, 562 
N.W.2d 151 (1997) (remanding to court of appeals on a tie vote 
on certification); State v. Richard Knutson, Inc., 191 Wis. 2d 
395, 396-97, 528 N.W.2d 430 (1995). 
¶3 
Accordingly, 
we 
vacate 
our 
order 
granting 
certification and remand to the court of appeals. 
By the Court.—The Order granting certification is vacated 
and the cause is remanded to the court of appeals. 
 
 
No. 00-2599  
 
 
 
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