Court Opinion

ID: 9740365
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 20:33:28.481965+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:17.699367
License: Public Domain

Wilkie, J.
(concurring). The court has determined that the practice of “trial-run” sentences is beyond the authority of existing statutory requirements of sec. *587973.02, Stats. I believe that the practice has much to commend it and recommend to the legislature that it adopt legislation that will authorize this procedure.
The imprisonment of a convicted defendant for a period of time with the stated purpose on the record of recalling him, after a period of incarceration to re-evaluate and possibly modify his sentence after considering the beneficial impact of his period of incarceration, is a practice that should be allowed within the sentencing options available to a trial court.