Case Title: State v. Anthony Hicks

Citation: 

Docket Number: 1994AP002542-CR

State: wisconsin

Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court

Date: 1997-01-24T00:00:00Z

Document:
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
                                                              
 
Case No.: 
 
94-2542-CR 
                                                              
 
Complete Title 
of Case: 
 
 
State of Wisconsin, 
 
 
 
 
Plaintiff-Appellant, 
 
 
 
Anthony Hicks, 
 
 
 
 
Defendant-Respondent-Petitioner. 
 
 
 
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REVIEW OF A DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS 
 
 
 
Reported at:  196 Wis. 2d 372, 539 N.W.2d 135 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(Ct. App. 1995) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
UNPUBLISHED 
 
                                                              
 
Opinion Filed:  
January 24, 1997 
Submitted on Briefs: 
September 24, 1996 
Oral Argument:  
 
                                                              
 
Source of APPEAL 
 
COURT: 
Circuit 
 
COUNTY: 
Milwaukee 
 
JUDGE: 
 
STANLEY A. MILLER 
 
                                                              
 
JUSTICES: 
 
 
Concurred: 
 
 
Dissented: 
 
 
Not Participating: 
 
                                                              
 
ATTORNEYS:  
For the defendant-respondent-petitioner the cause 
was submitted on the briefs of Robert R. Henak and Shellow, 
Shellow & Glynn, S.C., Milwaukee. 
 
 
For the plaintiff-appellant the cause was submitted on the 
brief of Stephen W. Kleinmaier, assistant attorney general, and 
James E. Doyle, attorney general. 
94-2542-CR 
 
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NOTICE 
This opinion is subject to further editing 
and modification.  The final version will 
appear in the bound volume of the official 
reports. 
 
 
No. 94-2542-CR 
 
STATE OF WISCONSIN               :        
        
 
 
 
 
IN SUPREME COURT 
 
 
State of Wisconsin, 
 
  
Plaintiff-Appellant, 
 
 
v. 
 
Anthony Hicks, 
 
 
Defendant-Respondent-Petitioner. 
 
FILED 
 
JAN 24, 1997 
 
Marilyn L. Graves 
Clerk of Supreme Court 
Madison, WI 
 
 
 
 
REVIEW of a decision of the Court of Appeals.  Reversed and 
remanded. 
 
¶1 
DONALD W. STEINMETZ, J.   This is a review of a 
decision of the court of appeals reversing an order of the 
circuit court for Milwaukee County, Stanley A. Miller, Judge, 
dismissing one count of a criminal complaint charging Anthony 
Hicks with a violation of the controlled substance tax statute. 
 The defendant, Hicks, argues that he has standing to raise a 
Fifth Amendment constitutional challenge1 to Wis. Stats. §§ 
139.87-139.96, the drug tax statutes, because he faces a 
criminal conviction for violation of these statutes. 
 
¶2 
In State v. Hall, No. 94-2848-CR (S. Ct. January 24, 
                     
1 The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides, 
in relevant part, that “[n]o person . . . shall be compelled in 
any criminal case to be a witness against himself . . . without 
due process of law . . . .” U.S. Const. Amend. V.  This 
amendment is applied to the states by U.S. Const. Amend. XIV, 
which states that “[n]o State shall . . . deprive any person of 
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. . . .” 
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2
1997), this court held that the drug tax stamp statute is 
unconstitutional.  Thus, we do not reach the standing issue 
presented in this case, because the defendant cannot be 
prosecuted for being in possession of cocaine without a tax 
stamp.  Instead, we reverse and remand to the circuit court with 
directions to dismiss with prejudice the drug tax stamp charge. 
 
By the Court.—Reversed and cause remanded with directions.