Court Opinion

ID: 9658896
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 21:21:23.690368+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:01.467211
License: Public Domain

Beilfuss, J.
(concurring). I agree that the petition for mandamus should be dismissed. I have no quarrel with the majority opinion. In my belief there is another and equally compelling reason.
In counties with a population of over 500,000 the legislature has given all of the duties and responsibilities of the district attorney in inquests into death to the county medical examiner.
Sec. 966.15, Stats., provides:
“Inquests; counties over 500,000. In each and every county whose inhabitants exceed in number 500,000 all the duties mentioned in the foregoing sections of this chapter shall be performed by the medical examiner appointed pursuant to s. 59.34 (1), who is hereby invested with the exclusive jurisdiction and power to take inquests therein, and in case of the inability of the medical examiner to attend to such duties the medical examiner may *386deputize one of Ms assistants to conduct the inquest.” (Emphasis added.)
I am authorized to state that Mr. Justice Eobert W. Hansen joins in this concurrence.