MILWAUKEE v. WROTEN

No. 89-1628.

160 Wis.2d 207 (1991)

466 N.W.2d 861

CITY OF MILWAUKEE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Eloise WROTEN, Defendant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided March 6, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff-appellant the cause was argued by Scott G. Thomas, Milwaukee assistant city attorney with whom on the briefs (in the court of appeals) was Grant F. Langley, city attorney.

For the defendant-respondent there was a brief by Kathleen Walsh and Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee, Inc., Milwaukee and oral argument by Ms. Walsh.


HEFFERNAN, CHIEF JUSTICE.

This is an appeal on bypass pursuant to sec. 808.05, Stats., from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county, Leah M. Lampone, judge, which affirmed the order of the municipal court of the City of Milwaukee dismissing the complaint of the city charging the defendant, Eloise Wroten, with "resisting" a police officer, contrary to the provisions of Ordinance 2-138. We affirm.

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