Court Opinion

ID: 9655452
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 19:10:57.911959+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:18.623841
License: Public Domain

SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, J.
(concurring). I join Justice Bablitch and Chief Justice Heffernan in their holding at the majority opinion, pp. 693-694, n. 4, that the defendant’s conviction must be reversed inasmuch as the defendant’s constitutional rights were violated by the circuit court’s failure to instruct the jurors on the need to agree as to the commission of a particular act in order to reach a unanimous verdict.
I agree with the majority opinion that the circuit court erred in admitting evidence of the juvenile adjudication and the evidence of the no contest plea. I do not join the remainder of the opinion on this issue, because I find that the discussion of plain error, harmless error, and prejudicial error fails to clarify an area of law that continues to create confusion.