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STATE v. KLIMAS

No. 78-553-CR.

94 Wis.2d 288 (1979)

288 N.W.2d 157

STATE, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. KLIMAS, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided December 20, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the defendant-appellant there were briefs by Richard L. Cates, state public defender, and Charles Bennett Vetzner, assistant state public defender, and oral argument by University of Wisconsin law student, Donna Tamanaha.

For the plaintiff-respondent there was a brief by Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general, and David J. Becker, assistant attorney general, and oral argument by David J. Becker, assistant attorney general.

Before Gartzke, P.J., Bablitch, J. and Dykman, J.

BABLITCH, J.

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court for Rock County, entered on August 17, 1978, denying a motion for postconviction relief under sec. 974.06, Stats.

Alvin Klimas (defendant) was convicted of second-degree murder after a jury trial on June 8, 1974, for killing his wife, Janice Klimas. He was sentenced to an indeterminate term of not less than five nor more than twenty years of imprisonment. On a direct appeal preceding the present...

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