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STATE EX REL. RICHARDS v. FOUST

No. 89-2083.

165 Wis.2d 429 (1991)

477 N.W.2d 608

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

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided December 10, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the respondent-appellant-petitioner the cause was submitted on the briefs of Robert W. Larsen, assistant attorney general and James E. Doyle, attorney general.

For the petitioner-respondent there was a brief by Harlan Richards, Waupun.

Amicus curiae brief was filed by Jeff Scott Olson and Julian, Olson & Lasher, S.C., Madison for State Bar of Wisconsin Individual Rights Section.

STEINMETZ, J.

This case presents two questions. The first question concerns whether the attorney general's office has jurisdiction to represent the district attorney, and the second deals with whether closed prosecutorial files are exempt from public access under open records law. We hold that the attorney general's office has the authority to represent the district attorney. We also hold that prosecutorial files are exempt from public access. We thereby reverse the...

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