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STATE EX REL. RICHARDS v. FOUST

No. 89-2083.

158 Wis.2d 531 (1990)

463 N.W.2d 378

STATE of Wisconsin EX REL. Harlan RICHARDS, Petitioner-Respondent, v. C. William FOUST, Respondent-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided October 4, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the respondent-appellant the cause was submitted on the briefs of Cal W. Kornstedt and Linda C. Krueger of Dane County Corporation Counsel.

For the petitioner-respondent the cause was submitted on the brief of Harlan Richards, pro se of Waupun.

Before Gartzke, P.J., Dykman and Sundby, JJ.

DYKMAN, J.

Dane County District Attorney C. William Foust appeals from a judgment denying his motion to quash an alternative writ of mandamus. The trial court issued the alternative writ on Harlan Richards' petition. Richards' petition alleged that Foust had denied his request under Wisconsin's public records law, secs. 19.31-.39, Stats., to inspect the prosecutor's closed case file in the criminal action State v. Richards, case No. 84 CF 344.

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