Court Opinion

ID: 9738140
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 19:43:24.126758+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:03.966663
License: Public Domain

WILLIAM G. CALLOW, J.
(concurring). Although I agree with the result reached by the majority, I write separately to express my concern with this court’s prior adoption, in State v. Dyess, 124 Wis. 2d 525, 370 N.W.2d 222 (1985), of a single test for harmless error. In Dyess this court adopted a rule recognizing there was but a single test for harmless error without that issue having been raised, briefed, or argued by the parties. Because of the circumstances under which the single test for harmless error was adopted, I believe the test for harmless error is ripe for review.
I do not join Justice Day’s concurrence because I reserve judgment on the proper harmless error test until this court is presented with a case in which the validity of the Dyess harmless error test is properly raised.