Title: State v. Wilbert L. Thomas

State: wisconsin

Issuer: Wisconsin Supreme Court

Document:

SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
Case No.: 
98-0152 
 
 
Complete Title 
of Case: 
 
In re the Commitment of Wilbert L. Thomas: 
 
State of Wisconsin,  
 
Petitioner-Respondent-Petitioner, 
 
v. 
Wilbert L. Thomas,  
 
Respondent-Appellant. 
 
 
ON REVIEW OF A DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS 
Reported at:  226 Wis. 2d 159, 594 N.W.2d 418 
 
 
 
(Ct. App. 1999-Unpublished) 
 
 
Opinion Filed: 
December 8, 1999 
Submitted on Briefs: 
      
Oral Argument: 
November 11, 1999 
 
 
Source of APPEAL 
 
COURT: 
Circuit 
 
COUNTY: 
Racine 
 
JUDGE: 
Emmanuel Vuvunas 
 
 
JUSTICES: 
 
Concurred: 
      
 
Dissented: 
      
 
Not Participating: PROSSER, J., did not participate. 
 
 
ATTORNEYS: 
For the petitioner-respondent-petitioner the 
cause was argued by Brian E. Pawlak, assistant district attorney, 
with whom on the briefs was Robert S. Flancher, district attorney 
and Michael E. Nieskes, deputy district attorney. 
 
 
For the respondent-appellant there was a brief by 
assistant state public defenders Mark Lukoff, Robert W. Peterson 
and Jack E. Schairer and oral argument by Jack E. Schairer, 
assistant state public defender. 
 
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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. 98-0152 
 
STATE OF WISCONSIN               :  
IN SUPREME COURT 
 
 
In re the Commitment of Wilbert L.  
Thomas: 
 
State of Wisconsin,  
 
          Petitioner-Respondent- 
          Petitioner, 
 
     v. 
 
Wilbert L. Thomas,  
 
          Respondent-Appellant. 
 
 
REVIEW of a decision of the Court of Appeals.  Affirmed.   
 
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PER CURIAM.  The court is equally divided on the 
question of whether the unpublished decision of the court of 
appeals, State v. Thomas, no. 98-0152 (Dec. 9, 1998), should be 
affirmed or reversed.  Chief Justice SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, 
Justice WILLIAM A. BABLITCH and Justice ANN WALSH BRADLEY would 
affirm; Justice JON P. WILCOX, Justice N. PATRICK CROOKS and 
Justice DIANE S. SYKES would reverse.  Justice DAVID T. PROSSER 
did not participate.   
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Accordingly, the decision of the court of appeals is 
affirmed.   
 
FILED 
 
DEC 8, 1999 
 
Marilyn L. Graves 
Clerk of Supreme Court 
Madison, WI 
 
 
 
 
 
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