STATE v. AXELSON

No. 88-1298-CR.

149 Wis.2d 339 (1989)

441 N.W.2d 259

STATE of Wisconsin, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Charles Nels AXELSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided February 22, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the defendant-appellant, the cause was submitted on the briefs Henry A. Sibbing of Lake Geneva.

On behalf of the plaintiff-respondent, the cause was submitted on the brief of Donald J. Hanaway, attorney general, and Barry M. Levenson, assistant attorney general.

Before Scott, C.J., Brown, P.J., and Nettesheim, J.


BROWN, P.J.

Charles Nels Axelson appeals from a judgment of conviction, claiming that the Walworth County Sheriff's Department conducted an untimely and therefore unreasonable inventory search of his impounded vehicle. Axelson thus argues that the items found during inventory and used at his trial should have been suppressed. We hold that a three-day hiatus between impounding and inventorying a vehicle does not render a warrantless inventory search illegal.

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