Court Opinion

ID: 9714898
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 05:48:38.908816+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:29.565482
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Robert W. Hansen, J.
(dissenting). The writer concurs with the reversal, but dissents from the remand. The appeal is from the issuance of a writ of prohibition absolute. The majority opinion concedes that “prohibition was not the proper remedy.” However, the majority refashions the writ of prohibition into a writ of habeas corpus, and returns the matter to the circuit court for relabeling of the action taken. We find no compelling reason for this court “regarding” a writ of prohibition absolute as a different type of writ in order to, even in part, sustain it. Additionally, we have serious doubts as *527to whether the retailored garment fits the situation. Here the defendant, arrested in June of 1968, is and has been at liberty and not deprived of his liberty ever since. See: Annot. Right of one at large on bail to writ of habeas corpus, 77 A. L. R. 2d 1307, 1308; Odell v. Haas (D. C. Wis.), 280 Fed. Supp. 208. The sole purpose and effect of the writ was to prevent the county court from holding a preliminary hearing and ruling on all issues there raised. The label is changed but the substance of what is accomplished is unchanged. In a recent case, this court held that prohibition was improper since there was a different adequate remedy available, and there the court did not refashion and rename the writ to accommodate the petitioner. State ex rel. Cullen v. Ceci (1970), 45 Wis. 2d 432, 173 N. W. 2d 175. The writ of prohibition there was dismissed. Period. The writ of prohibition here should be dismissed. Period.
I am authorized to state that Mr. Justice Leo B. Han-ley and Mr. Justice Connor T. Hansen concur in this dissenting opinion.