Court Opinion

ID: 9655442
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 19:10:49.320748+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:18.564071
License: Public Domain

WILLIAM A. BABLITCH, J.
(concurring). The record in this case indicates that most of the blood sample taken from the defendant was accidentally destroyed after the state subjected it to tests for controlled substances, thereby leaving an insufficient amount to enable the defendant to conduct any tests. Because of the absence of any finding of bad faith, intentional misconduct, or malicious destruction of the blood sample on the part of the state, and because the defendant failed to present evidence to establish the materiality of the sample, I concur in the result. I do not join the majority opinion for the reasons set forth in my concurring opinion in State v. Ehlen, 119 Wis. 2d 451, 351 N.W.2d 503 (1984), also decided today.
I am authorized to state that Justice William G. Callow joins in this concurring opinion.