STATE v. MCDOUGAL

No. State 25.

68 Wis.2d 399 (1975)

228 N. W. 2d 671

STATE, Plaintiff in error, v. MCDOUGAL, Defendant in error.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided May 6, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff in error the cause was argued by Thomas J. Balistreri, assistant attorney general, with whom on the briefs was Robert W. Warren, attorney general.

For the defendant in error there was a brief by Patrick R. Doyle of La Crosse, and oral argument by Daniel B. Watson of Gays Mills.


BEILFUSS, J.

The issues raised on this appeal deal only with the existence and validity of an "inventory search." There is no attempt by the state to justify the intrusion into the automobile as a consent search, a search incident to arrest, a probable cause search, an exigent circumstances search, or anything other than an inventory search. The record clearly indicates that due to the lack of consent, the time and place of the intrusion, and the general lack of any...

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