Court Opinion

ID: 9666712
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:26:09.201546+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:32.350752
License: Public Domain

FINE, J.
(concurring). I agree with the majority that an evidentiary hearing is needed to determine whether, in fact, Riad Abdullah Issa knew that he was subject to deportation upon his conviction. I write separately to note two things. First, the presentence report presented to the trial court asserts that Issa "stated that he realizes that because of this offense he can be deported."
Second, as the majority notes, Issa wants to withdraw only one of his guilty pleas so he would stand a better chance in fighting deportation. Majority op. at 204, n.l. Issa pled guilty to two counts of armed robbery. The armed robberies were committed within ten *212days of each other. A charge may not be dismissed without the trial court's approval, and only if the trial court determines that the dismissal is in the public interest. State v. Kenyon, 85 Wis. 2d 36, 45-47, 270 N.W.2d 160, 163-165 (1978). Absent extraordinary circumstances not apparent from the record, it is not, in my view, in the public interest to give a defendant a "free" armed robbery; nor is it in the public interest to manipulate the criminal justice system in order to circumvent the immigration laws.