STATE EX REL. LA FOLLETTE v. CIRCUIT COURT


37 Wis.2d 329 (1967)

STATE EX REL. LA FOLLETTE, Relator, v. CIRCUIT COURT FOR BROWN COUNTY, and others, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

December 22, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the relator the cause was argued by Robert E. Sutton, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general.

For the respondents there was a brief by Cohen, Parins, Cohen & Grant of Green Bay, and oral argument by Meyer M. Cohen and Peter N. Flessas of Milwaukee.


CURRIE, C. J.

We have before us these three issues:

(1) Will prohibition lie to prevent a circuit court from discharging, without remand to the committing juvenile court, a substantial number of inmates of the state reformatory, where it is claimed in behalf of the state that such absolute discharge is contrary to law?

(2) Is In re Gault retroactive, in regard to a juvenile's right to counsel at a delinquency hearing?

(3) Does a habeas...

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