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LINSE v. STATE

No. 77-350-CR.

93 Wis.2d 163 (1980)

286 N.W.2d 554

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

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided January 8, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff in error the cause was submitted on the brief of Howard B. Eisenberg, state public defender.

For the defendant in error the cause was submitted on the brief of Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general, and Nadim Sahar, assistant attorney general.

HEFFERNAN, J.

The sole question raised on appeal is whether the trial court erred by denying the defendant's request for a special instruction cautioning the jury to subject the testimony of the state's principal witness to careful scrutiny because he had been granted immunity to testify. The proffered instruction was modeled on the standard instruction for accomplice testimony and warned that it is ordinarily unsafe to convict or base a verdict on the uncorroborated...

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