Court Opinion

ID: 9730350
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 15:10:02.122571+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:05.982390
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WILLIAM G. CALLOW, J.
(concurring). The majority opinion discusses the status of a presentence investigation report which may be ordered by the judge prior to sentencing. The majority declines to take a positive position on the conclusiveness of the evidence of a prior conviction set forth in the report by stating: “If the report is properly prepared with that use and status as an objective, the argument [as to conclusiveness] may be acceptable.” (P. 657.) Section 973.12(1), Stats., provides, in part: “An official report of the F.B.I. or *664any other governmental agency of the United States or of this or any other state shall be prima facie evidence of any conviction or sentence therein reported.”
I conclude that, when such a presentence investigation report includes evidence of any conviction or sentence previously imposed, the statute clearly permits the sentencing judge, in the absence of contradictory evidence, to rely upon such report in considering an appropriate sentence.
I am authorized to state that Justices Day and Ceci join in this concurring opinion.