Title: State v. Larry R. Dowe

State: wisconsin

Issuer: Wisconsin Supreme Court

Document:

SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
                                                              
 
Case No.: 
 
95-0314-CR 
                                                              
 
Complete Title 
of Case: 
 
 
State of Wisconsin, 
 
 
 
 
Plaintiff-Respondent, 
 
 
 
 
v. 
 
 
 
Larry R. Dowe, 
 
 
 
 
Defendant-Appellant-Petitioner, 
 
 
 
_______________________________________ 
 
 
 
 
REVIEW OF A DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS 
 
 
 
Reported at:  197 Wis. 2d 848, 541 N.W.2d 218 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(Ct. App. 1995) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PUBLISHED 
 
                                                              
 
Opinion Filed:  
January 24, 1997 
Submitted on Briefs: 
 
Oral Argument:  
September 10, 1996 
 
                                                              
 
Source of APPEAL 
 
COURT: 
Circuit 
 
COUNTY: 
Waukesha 
 
JUDGE: 
 
Marianne E. Becker 
 
                                                              
 
JUSTICES: 
 
 
Concurred: 
 
 
Dissented: 
 
 
Not Participating: 
 
                                                              
 
ATTORNEYS:  
For the defendant-appellant-petitioner there were 
briefs and oral argument by Bryan J. Borman, assistant state 
public defender. 
 
 
For the plaintiff-respondent the cause was argued by Stephen 
W. Kleinmaier, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief 
was James E. Doyle, attorney general. 
 
 
Amicus curiae brief was filed by Robert R. Henak and Shellow, 
Shellow & Glynn, S.C., Milwaukee for the Wisconsin Association of 
Criminal Defense Lawyers. 
No. 95-0314-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. 95-0314-CR 
 
STATE OF WISCONSIN               :        
        
 
 
 
 
IN SUPREME COURT 
 
 
State of Wisconsin, 
 
  
Plaintiff-Respondent, 
 
 
v. 
 
Larry R. Dowe, 
 
 
Defendant-Appellant-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 
cause remanded. 
 
¶1 
ANN WALSH BRADLEY, J.   This case is before the court 
on a petition for review filed by the defendant, Larry R. Dowe.  
The defendant seeks review of a court of appeals' decision
1 
affirming a non-final order of the circuit court for Waukesha 
County, Marianne E. Becker, Judge, denying his motion to dismiss. 
 The defendant argues that because possession of marijuana with 
intent to deliver
2 is a lesser-included offense of being a dealer 
in possession of marijuana without a tax stamp,
3 the State's act 
of charging him with both offenses constitutes double jeopardy.   
 
¶2 
In State v. Hall, No. 94-2848-CR (S. Ct. Jan. 24, 
1997), this court held that the drug tax stamp statute is 
unconstitutional.  Thus, we do not reach the double jeopardy 
                     
1 State v. Dowe, 197 Wis. 2d 848, 541 N.W.2d 218 (1995) 
2 Wis. Stat. § 161.41(1m)(h)1 (1991-92). 
3 Wis. Stat. § 139.95(2) (1991-92). 
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issue presented in this case, because the defendant cannot be 
prosecuted for being a dealer in possession of marijuana without 
a tax stamp.  Instead, we reverse and remand to the circuit court 
for further proceedings on the charge of possession of marijuana 
with intent to deliver and with directions to dismiss with 
prejudice the drug tax stamp charge.   
 
By the Court.—Reversed and cause remanded with directions.