Court Opinion

ID: 9658568
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 21:05:01.568956+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:56.729495
License: Public Domain

SUNDBY, J.
(dissenting). It trivializes the serious problem of domestic abuse to apply sec. 813.12, Stats., to this case. The broad construction given to sec. 813.12, Stats., by the majority threatens its constitutionality. The statute was sustained in Schramek v. Bohren, 145 Wis. 2d 695, 711, 429 N.W.2d 501, 507 (Ct. App. 1988), because "[o]nly individuals within precise settings who were victims of clearly defined physical abuse were deemed to receive protection by state action." Johnson has never been the victim of Miller's physical abuse. The *489most that the record establishes is that Johnson, in her words, is "just scared" of Miller. I dissent.