COURT OF APPEALS

DECISION

DATED AND FILED

April 28, 2022

Sheila T. Reiff

Clerk of Court of Appeals

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Appeal No. 2021AP1163-CR Cir. Ct. No. 2019CT34

STATE OF WISCONSIN IN COURT OF APPEALS

DISTRICT IV

STATE OF WISCONSIN,

 PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT,

 V.

DOMINIC A. CALDIERO,

 DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

APPEAL from a judgment and an order of the circuit court for 

Waupaca County: RAYMOND S. HUBER, Judge. Affirmed.

¶1 GRAHAM, J.1 Dominic Caldiero was arrested for his third 

operating while intoxicated (OWI)-related offense in January 2019. Caldiero

provided a blood sample, and chemical testing revealed an alcohol concentration 

 

1

 This appeal is decided by one judge pursuant to WIS. STAT. § 752.31(2)(f) (2019-20).
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of 0.072 grams per 100 milliliters. The State determined that, at the time of his

January 2019 arrest, Caldiero was subject to an ignition interlock device order, 

which had been issued in September 2015 following his second conviction of an 

OWI-related offense. Therefore, the State determined that Caldiero’s maximum 

allowable blood alcohol concentration was 0.02 pursuant to WIS. STAT.

§ 340.01(46m) (2019-20) and WIS. STAT. § 343.301 (2013-14).

2 Caldiero was 

charged with operating a motor vehicle with a prohibited blood alcohol 

concentration, third offense, and he was convicted following a jury trial.

¶2 Caldiero argues that the circuit court should have granted his pretrial 

motion to dismiss the prohibited blood alcohol concentration charge, or 

alternatively, his postconviction motion to vacate his conviction of that offense. 

He contends that, at the time of his arrest in January 2019, he was no longer 

subject to the September 2015 ignition interlock device order. According to 

Caldiero, that order had expired, and therefore the prohibited alcohol 

concentration that applied to him at the time of his arrest was actually the default 

prohibited alcohol concentration, 0.08.

 

2

 WISCONSIN STAT. § 343.301, which pertains to court orders relating to ignition 

interlock devices, was amended in 2016 and 2017. See 2016 Wis. Act 389 (effective Oct. 2, 

2016) and 2017 Wis. Act 124 (effective Dec. 9, 2017). These amendments are reflected in the 

2015-16 version of the statutes, published in January 2017, but they were not in effect in 

September 2015, when the ignition interlock device order at issue in this case was issued. 

Caldiero and the State both rely on the 2013-14 version of § 343.301, which was in effect in 

September 2015, for their substantive analysis in this appeal, and I follow their lead. 

Accordingly, although sometimes I discuss that statute using the present tense, all references to 

§ 343.301 are to the 2013-14 version.

Apart from the amendments to WIS. STAT. § 343.301, there have been no material 

changes to the applicable statutory provisions during the relevant time periods. Accordingly, for 

ease of reference, all references to provisions in the Wisconsin Statutes other than § 343.301 are 

to the 2019-20 version.
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¶3 For the reasons explained below, I conclude that the September 2015 

order had not expired—and that Caldiero continued to be subject to that order—

when he was arrested in January 2019. Therefore, I conclude that the circuit court 

properly denied Caldiero’s pretrial motion to dismiss and his postconviction

motion to vacate his conviction of the prohibited alcohol concentration charge. I 

also reject Caldiero’s alternative argument that he is entitled to additional sentence 

credit. Accordingly, I affirm the judgment of conviction and the order denying 

Caldiero’s postconviction motion.

BACKGROUND

¶4 Caldiero had two prior OWI-related offenses in January 2019 when 

he was arrested for his third such offense, which is the subject of this appeal.3 The 

parties’ arguments turn on the legal consequences of Caldiero’s conviction for his 

second OWI-related offense, Waupaca County Case No. 2015CT55.

¶5 Caldiero was convicted and sentenced in Case No. 2015CT55 on

September 21, 2015. During sentencing, the circuit court revoked Caldiero’s 

operating privilege for a period of 13 months, effective immediately. 

Additionally, the parties agree that, consistent with WIS. STAT. § 343.301(1g)

(2013-14), the court was required to order that Caldiero’s operating privilege

would be subject to a restriction lasting at least one year, during which Caldiero 

 

3

 Throughout this opinion, I use the term “OWI-related offenses” to refer to convictions, 

suspensions, and revocations that are enumerated in WIS. STAT. § 343.307(1).
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could only drive vehicles that were equipped with an ignition interlock device.

4

Although the transcript is not entirely clear on this point, the parties appear to 

agree that the court-ordered restriction on Caldiero’s operating privilege would

last 13 months. Throughout this opinion, I refer to the ignition-interlock-related

order issued at sentencing in Case No. 2015CT55 as the “September 2015 order.”

¶6 It is undisputed that Caldiero never sought to reinstate his operating 

privilege with the state department of transportation, and that his operating 

privilege was still revoked at the time he was arrested for the current offense. It is 

not clear from the record whether Caldiero ever installed an ignition interlock 

device on any vehicle titled or registered in his name. However, the vehicle 

Caldiero was driving in when he was pulled over in January 2019 did not have any 

such device.

¶7 The State charged Caldiero with several offenses stemming from the 

events of January 11, 2019. The charges included one count of operating a motor 

vehicle with prohibited alcohol concentration, third offense (hereinafter, the “PAC 

 

4

 The transcript of Caldiero’s sentencing in Case No. 2015CT55 does not expressly 

mention any restriction on his operating privilege. The circuit court stated, “I will make the 

revocation effective forthwith giving [Caldiero] credit for any period of administrative suspension 

that may have been put into place.” The court continued, “I will revoke your driving privileges 

for a period of 13 months. If I didn’t indicate, the revocation is 13 months. I will direct that 

during that period of revocation you operate vehicles equipped with ignition interlock devices.”

Although the transcript is unclear in certain respects, Caldiero does not argue that the

circuit court failed to restrict his operating privilege as required by WIS. STAT. § 343.301(1g)

(2013-14). Instead, as discussed below, Caldiero’s argument is that the 2013-2014 version of 

§ 343.301(2m) allowed the court to order that the 13-month restriction on his operating privilege 

would run “alongside [the] 13-month revocation of his driver’s license,” and, according to 

Caldiero, that was what the circuit court ordered in Case No. 2015CT55.
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charge”) and one count of operating a motor vehicle while revoked.

5 As it relates 

to the PAC charge, the complaint alleged that Caldiero operated a motor vehicle 

with an alcohol concentration of 0.072 at a time in which he was “subject to” an 

ignition interlock order under WIS. STAT. § 343.301. Thus, the complaint alleged

that his maximum allowable alcohol concentration was 0.02 by operation of WIS.

STAT. § 340.01(46m).

¶8 Caldiero moved to dismiss the PAC charge on the ground that he 

was not “subject to” an ignition interlock device order under WIS. STAT. § 343.301

(2013-14). He initially argued that, based on the language of the 2013-14 statute, 

the September 2015 order “would not have yet started to run” until such time his 

driver’s license was reinstated by the department of transportation, which had not 

yet occurred. Later, he argued that the 13-month restriction on his operating 

privilege had been effective immediately, and therefore, that the restriction had 

long since expired. Either way, he contended, he was not subject to the 

September 2015 order, and therefore, he was not subject to a maximum allowable 

alcohol concentration of 0.02. The circuit court denied the motion.

¶9 Caldiero pled guilty to operating a motor vehicle while revoked.

The case proceeded to trial on the PAC charge, and the jury returned a guilty 

verdict. The circuit court sentenced Caldiero to 60 days confinement in the county 

jail. It stayed all but 14 of those days pending Caldiero’s completion of a 

 

5

 The State also charged Caldiero with one count of operating a motor vehicle while 

intoxicated and one count of failing to install an ignition interlock device. Both of these counts 

were dismissed before trial, and neither party challenges the dismissal of either count on appeal. 

As a result, I discuss these two counts no further.
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diversion program, and it stayed all but the first 48 hours of his jail sentence 

pending appeal.

¶10 Caldiero filed a postconviction motion to vacate his conviction of 

the PAC charge. In the motion, Caldiero renewed his argument that the 

September 2015 order expired 13 months after it was issued, and therefore, that 

the prohibited alcohol concentration that applied to him when he was arrested in 

January 2019 was actually 0.08. Separately, Caldiero sought 14 days of sentence 

credit. I present additional information regarding the motion for sentence credit in 

the discussion section below.

¶11 The circuit court denied Caldiero’s postconviction motion to vacate 

the conviction of the PAC charge. Regarding sentence credit, the court granted 

four days of credit but denied his request for 10 additional days. Caldiero appeals.

DISCUSSION

¶12 On appeal, Caldiero renews his argument that he should not have 

been convicted of operating a motor vehicle with a prohibited alcohol 

concentration. In the alternative, Caldiero argues that he is entitled to 10 

additional days of sentence credit. I address each of these arguments in turn, 

ultimately rejecting both.

I

¶13 Caldiero maintains that when he was pulled over in January 2019, he 

was not driving with a prohibited alcohol concentration. He argues that, based on 

his interpretation of two interrelated statutes, WIS. STAT. §340.01(46m) and WIS.

STAT. § 343.301 (2013-14), the prohibited alcohol concentration that applied to 
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him was 0.08. Statutory interpretation presents a question of law, which I review 

de novo. State v. Arberry, 2018 WI 7, ¶14, 379 Wis. 2d 254, 905 N.W.2d 832.6

¶14 WISCONSIN STAT. § 340.01(46m)(a) sets forth a default prohibited 

alcohol concentration of 0.08 for most Wisconsin drivers. However, under certain 

circumstances, a person is prohibited from driving with “an alcohol concentration 

of more than 0.02.” See § 340.01(46m)(c). One such circumstance is if the person 

is “subject to an order under s. 343.301.” Id. If so, the person’s maximum 

allowable alcohol concentration is 0.02. Id.

¶15 Accordingly, this case turns on whether, as a consequence of his 

second OWI-related conviction in September 2015, Caldiero was “subject to an 

order under s. 343.301” (2013-14) at the time he was arrested in January 2019. If 

so, he was properly charged with and convicted of the PAC charge. But if not, the 

criminal complaint failed to allege that Caldiero operated a motor vehicle with a 

prohibited alcohol concentration, and the jury instructions did not accurately 

inform the jury of the prohibited alcohol concentration that applied to Caldiero.

¶16 In addressing Caldiero’s argument that he was not “subject to an 

order under s. 343.301” in January 2019, I begin by summarizing some of the 

statutory consequences of OWI-related offenses. Wisconsin Statutes impose

consequences beyond jail time and fines for such offenses, and the consequences

escalate with each subsequent offense. Among other things, when sentencing a 

 

6

 When I interpret a statute, I begin with its plain language. State ex rel. Kalal v. Circuit 

Ct. for Dane Cnty., 2004 WI 58, ¶45, 271 Wis. 2d 633, 681 N.W.2d 110. I give that language 

“its common, ordinary, and accepted meaning, except that technical or specially-defined words or 

phrases are given their technical or special definitional meaning.” Id. I interpret statutory 

language in the context in which it is used, in relation to the language of surrounding or closely 

related statutes, and in a reasonable manner, to avoid absurd or unreasonable results. Id., ¶46.
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person for their second OWI-related offense, “the court shall revoke the person’s 

operating privilege for not less than one year nor more than 18 months.” WIS.

STAT. § 343.30(1q)(b)3. Additionally, the court must make orders restricting the 

person’s operating privilege to vehicles equipped with an ignition interlock device, 

and requiring the person to install such devices on certain vehicles. The

requirements related to ignition interlock devices are found in WIS. STAT.

§ 343.301 (2013-14) and are the focus of this appeal.

¶17 WISCONSIN STAT. § 343.301 (2013-14) provides in relevant part:

(1g) A court shall order a person’s operating 

privilege ... be restricted to operating vehicles that are 

equipped with an ignition interlock device and, [with 

exceptions that are inapplicable here,] shall order that each 

motor vehicle for which the person’s name appears on the 

vehicle’s certificate of title or registration be equipped with 

an ignition interlock device ....

....

(2m) The court shall restrict the operating 

privilege under sub. (1g) for a period of not less than one 

year nor more than the maximum operating privilege 

revocation period permitted for the refusal or violation, 

beginning on the date the department issues any license

granted under this chapter, [with exceptions that are 

inapplicable here]. The court may order the installation of 

an ignition interlock device under sub. (1g) immediately

upon issuing an order under sub. (1g).

(Emphasis added.)

¶18 Plainly, WIS. STAT. § 343.301(1g) (2013-14) imposes two separate 

requirements. It requires that, at the time the person’s driver’s license is reinstated

following revocation, the operating privilege will come with a restriction—the 

person will only be allowed to operate vehicles that are equipped with an ignition 
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interlock device. Id. Separately, it also requires that the person install an ignition 

interlock device on any vehicle that is titled or registered in the person’s name. Id.

¶19 Turning to WIS. STAT. § 343.301(2m) (2013-14), that subsection

plainly provides separate timelines for these two requirements. The restriction on 

the person’s operating privilege “begin[s] on the date the department [of 

transportation] issues any license.” Id. As for the order requiring the installation 

of an ignition interlock device, the court may, in its discretion, order installation to 

happen “immediately” upon issuance of the subsection (1g) order. Id. In other 

words, under subsection (2m), the court may require a person to immediately

install ignition interlock devices on vehicles titled or registered in the person’s

name—even though the person should not be driving at all during this period 

because their operating privilege has been revoked pursuant to WIS. STAT.

§ 343.30(1q)(b)3.

¶20 During the circuit court proceedings, Caldiero argued that he was not 

subject to an order under WIS. STAT. § 343.301 (2013-14) because he had not yet 

sought reinstatement of his driver’s license. This court rejected an identical

argument in State v. Quisling, No. 2017AP1658, unpublished slip op. (WI App 

April 12, 2018).

7

 In that case, Quisling argued that he was not “subject to an order 

under § 343.301” at the time of his most recent arrest for an OWI-related offense 

because the order requiring him to install a device was contingent on the 

department of transportation issuing him a Wisconsin driver’s license, which had 

not yet occurred. Id., ¶¶8, 21. This court interpreted WIS. STAT. § 343.301 

 

7

 WISCONSIN STAT. RULE 809.23(3)(b) allows the citation of an unpublished, authored 

opinion issued after July 1, 2009, for its persuasive value.
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(2013-14) and concluded that, based on its “plain meaning,” Quisling was 

“‘subject to an order under s. 343.301’” when the circuit court issued the order 

under that section, and that Quisling “remained a ‘person subject’ to that order”

when he was arrested 18 months later, “even though the department had not yet 

issued a Wisconsin license to him, and perhaps never would.” Id., ¶22.

¶21 The Quisling opinion was issued by one judge, and therefore, it has 

no precedential value. WIS. STAT. RULE 809.23(3)(b). However, it may be cited 

for persuasive value, and, in my view, it persuasively interprets the statutes at 

issue in this case. If, in his opening appellate brief, Caldiero had renewed his

argument that he was not yet “subject to an order under s. 343.301” (2013-14) 

because he had not sought reinstatement of his driver’s license, I would have 

rejected that argument for the same reasons this court rejected the arguments 

advanced in Quisling.

¶22 I now turn to the argument that Caldiero has renewed on appeal—

that the requirements of the September 2015 order had already expired when 

Caldiero was arrested in January 2019. Caldiero bases this argument on his 

interpretation of WIS. STAT. § 343.301(2m) (2013-14). According to Caldiero, 

“the law in effect at the time” he was sentenced in September 2015 “provided that 

the restriction(s) on driving privileges would begin on the date that a license was 

later issued, unless the trial court had immediately ordered the installation of an 

ignition interlock device.” (Emphasis added.) In other words, Caldiero argues

that the 2013-14 statute provided a “default start date of the ignition interlock 

requirement,” but that the statute also gave the court discretion to order the 

immediate installation of the device. Caldiero contends that the court ordered him 

to install an ignition interlock device during the 13-month period in which his 

operating privilege was revoked. Therefore, he contends, the requirement that he
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install an ignition interlock device, which began in September 2015, expired no 

more than 13 months later in October 2016.

¶23 I reject Caldiero’s interpretation because it improperly conflates the 

two separate requirements in WIS. STAT. § 343.301 (2013-14). Caldiero is correct 

insofar as he argues that the court had discretion under the 2013-14 statute to order 

the immediate installation of an ignition interlock device. However, even if the 

court ordered him to immediately install a device, that does not mean that the 

restriction on his operating privilege began to run on the date the court issued the 

September 2015 order. The September 2015 order revoked Caldiero’s operating 

privilege for 13 months; therefore, he had no operating privilege to restrict at that 

time. Caldiero’s argument that the restriction on his operating privilege ran

alongside the revocation of his operating privilege defies any reasonable

interpretation of the statute—a driver cannot have his operating privilege revoked 

and, at the same time, have an operating privilege that is subject to a restriction.

¶24 As stated above, and contrary to Caldiero’s interpretation, the plain 

language of WIS. STAT. § 343.301(1g) (2013-14) demonstrates that the restriction 

on Caldiero’s license is separate from the requirement that he install an ignition 

interlock device on vehicles titled or registered in his name. In other words, it 

does not matter whether or not the court ordered Caldiero to immediately install 

such a device—under (2m), the restriction on Caldiero’s operating privilege will

“begin[] on the date the department [of transportation] issues any license.” Id.

And, as in Quisling, the fact that Caldiero had not yet sought reinstatement of his 

operating privilege has no bearing on the application of the statute. Quisling, No. 

2017AP1658, ¶22. Therefore, Caldiero continues to be “subject to an order under 

s. 343.301” (2013-14) until the department reinstates his license and the period of 

restriction runs its course.
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¶25 Before concluding, I pause to acknowledge that, as mentioned

above, the transcript from Caldiero’s sentencing in 2015TR55 is less than clear on 

several points. See supra n.4. However, Caldiero’s sole argument is based on his 

interpretation of the 2013-14 version of the statute, and I have rejected that

interpretation. Caldiero has not argued that the court failed to issue an order 

required by WIS. STAT. § 343.301(1g) (2013-14). Nor has he argued that any 

failure to do so would override the mandatory language of that statute. See Schill 

v. Wisconsin Rapids Sch. Dist., 2010 WI 86, ¶45 & n.21, 327 Wis. 2d 572, 786 

N.W.2d 177 (explaining that issues not raised in the circuit court are forfeited); 

State v. Pettit, 171 Wis. 2d 627, 646-47, 492 N.W.2d 633 (Ct. App. 1992) (an 

appellate court “cannot serve as both advocate and judge” and will not develop 

arguments on an appellant’s behalf).

¶26 In sum, I conclude that Caldiero became a person “subject to” an 

order under WIS. STAT. § 343.301 (2013-14) upon issuance of the September 2015

order, and that he remained a “person subject” to that order when he was arrested 

in January 2019. Therefore, his maximum allowable prohibited alcohol 

concentration was 0.02 at the time of his arrest, and Caldiero has not established 

grounds to vacate his conviction of the PAC offense.8

 

8

 Given my conclusion about the proper interpretation of WIS. STAT. § 343.301 

(2013-14), I need not address the parties’ additional arguments about policy considerations and 

the subsequent amendments to that statute. Lakeland Area Prop. Owners Assoc., U.A. v. Oneida 

Cnty., 2021 WI App 19, ¶17, 396 Wis. 2d 622, 957 N.W.2d 605 (a court “need not address all 

arguments raised by the parties if one of those arguments is dispositive”).
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II

¶27 In the alternative, Caldiero contends that he is entitled to 10

additional days of sentence credit. The State contends that Caldiero is not entitled 

to any additional credit. To resolve this dispute, I apply WIS. STAT. § 973.155 and 

existing case law to undisputed facts. This presents a question of law, which I

review de novo. State v. Tuescher, 226 Wis. 2d 465, 468, 595 N.W.2d 443 (Ct.

App. 1999).

¶28 WISCONSIN STAT. § 973.155(1)(a) provides that “[a] convicted 

offender shall be given credit toward the service of his or her sentence for all days 

spent in custody in connection with the course of conduct for which sentence was 

imposed.”9 The offender is entitled to one day of sentence credit for each day 

served, but credit “is not to be duplicatively [given] to more than one of the 

sentences imposed to run consecutively.” State v. Boettcher, 144 Wis. 2d 86, 87, 

423 N.W.2d 533 (1988). As our supreme court has explained, “[t]he total time in 

 

9

 WISCONSIN STAT. § 973.155(1)(a) provides in its entirety:

A convicted offender shall be given credit toward the 

service of his or her sentence for all days spent in custody in 

connection with the course of conduct for which sentence was 

imposed. As used in this subsection, “actual days spent in 

custody” includes, without limitation by enumeration, 

confinement related to an offense for which the offender is 

ultimately sentenced, or for any other sentence arising out of the 

same course of conduct, which occurs:

1. While the offender is awaiting trial;

2. While the offender is being tried; and

3. While the offender is awaiting imposition of sentence 

after trial.
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custody should be credited on a day-for-day basis against the total days imposed in 

the consecutive sentences.” Id. at 100.

¶29 The parties agree that Caldiero was arrested on January 11, 2019, 

and, at that time, he was also on probation for a prior 2018 conviction for battery 

in Waupaca County Case No. 2018CM204. Caldiero remained in custody for four 

days (from January 11-14) in connection with the PAC charge. Then, on 

January 14, Caldiero signed a signature bond releasing him from custody for the 

charges in the present case. He nevertheless remained in custody for ten days 

(from January 15-24) as a result of the probation hold in Case No. 2018CM204. 

Caldiero was released from custody on January 24.

¶30 In his postconviction motion, Caldiero argues that he was in custody 

for a total of 14 days in connection with the course of conduct for which his 

sentence for the PAC conviction was imposed. The State stipulated that Caldiero 

was entitled to four days of sentence credit, and the circuit court granted credit for 

four days, corresponding with January 11-14, 2019. However, the court denied 

sentence credit for the 10 days starting with January 15 that he remained in 

custody on the probation hold in Case No. 2018CM204.

¶31 The State does not appeal the circuit court’s decision, consistent with 

its stipulation, to award four days of sentence credit corresponding with Caldiero’s

pretrial custody from January 11-14, 2019; therefore, I do not weigh in on whether 

those four days of credit were properly awarded. As to Caldiero’s argument in 

favor of an additional 10 days of credit corresponding to his pretrial custody from 

January 15-24, 2019, I conclude that Caldiero is not entitled to sentence credit.

¶32 Caldiero does not dispute the State’s assertions that he finished 

serving his sentence in Case No. 2018CM204 no later than December 2019, and 
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that he did not start serving any portion of his sentence for the current PAC 

offense until after he was sentenced in January 2020. Accordingly, Caldiero does 

not meaningfully argue that he served any portion of his sentence in Case 

No. 2018CM204 concurrently with the sentence he has yet to serve in this case. 

Nor does he dispute the State’s contention that the circuit court awarded him 14 

days of credit, corresponding with January 11-25, 2019, when it sentenced him to 

time served in Case No. 2018CM204.

¶33 Instead, Caldiero contends that this is not a case where the general 

prohibition against dual credit for consecutive sentences would apply. His 

argument appears to be based on an assertion that the circuit court did not 

specifically designate the sentence in this case as “consecutive” to his sentence in 

Case No. 2018CM204. Therefore, he contends, his sentence in this case is 

concurrent to any other sentence “by default,” and he should be given dual credit.

¶34 This court rejected a similar argument in State v. Morrick, 147 Wis.

2d 185, 188-89, 432 N.W.2d 654 (Ct. App. 1988). In that case, Morrick likewise 

sought dual credit for two sentences that were separately imposed. And, as here, 

Morrick argued that the sentences could not be considered “consecutive” for 

purposes of determining sentence credit because there was a gap between when he 

finished serving the first-imposed sentence and when he started serving the laterimposed sentence. Id. at 188. This court flatly rejected that argument. Id. We

acknowledged that Morrick’s two sentences were not “consecutive” in the 

technical sense of the term, given the gap between the sentences. Id. at 187. 

However, we concluded that, with respect to sentence credit, there was “no 

difference in principle” between “consecutive sentences and the two separate and 

distinct sentences at issue [in Morrick’s case].” Id. at 191. We emphasized that 

Boettcher requires “day-for-day credit for the time served, no more and no less; 
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and that is what [Morrick] received.” Id. By contrast, if we were to award dual 

credit, it “would be authorizing double credit for time served ... in violation of the 

spirit, if not the letter, of Boettcher.” Id.

¶35 Likewise, in State v. Jackson, 2000 WI App 41, 233 Wis. 2d 231, 

607 N.W.2d 338, this court was presented with a similar fact pattern, and we again 

rejected the defendant’s request for dual credit. As we explained, “[t]he core idea 

of Boettcher is that ‘dual credit is not permitted’ where a defendant has already 

received credit against a sentence which has been, or will be, separately served.” 

Id., ¶19.

¶36 So too here. Caldiero does not dispute that he has already received

credit in Case No. 2018CM204 for his time spent in pretrial custody from January 

15-24, 2019. If I were to conclude that Caldiero should be awarded additional 

credit for those days in pretrial custody, I would be authorizing dual credit in 

violation of Boettcher, Morrick, and Jackson.

10

 

10

 I recognize that the circuit court did not employ this reasoning when it determined that 

Caldiero was not entitled to 10 days credit to correspond with the time he spent in custody from 

January 15-24, 2019. Regardless, as noted above, the proper amount of sentence credit is an issue

subject to de novo review.

Finally, I note that the state advances a confusing argument on appeal. The State relies

on State v. Beets, 124 Wis. 2d 372, 379, 369 N.W.2d 382 (1985), for the proposition that “the 

connection” between Caldiero’s arrest for the PAC offense and his custody on the probation hold

“was severed when the custody resulting from the probation hold was converted into a revocation 

and fully completed jail sentence in the battery case.” I need not consider this argument because 

Caldiero is not entitled to any additional credit for the reasons explained above. See supra, ¶¶31-

36.
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By the Court.—Judgment and order affirmed.

This opinion will not be published. See WIS. STAT. RULE

809.23(1)(b)4.