STATE v. SWEAT

No. 95-1975-CR.

208 Wis.2d 409 (1997)

561 N.W.2d 695

STATE of Wisconsin, Plaintiff-Respondent-Petitioner, v. Robert W. SWEAT, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided April 18, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff-respondent-petitioner the cause was argued by Maureen McGlynn Flanagan, assistant attorney general with whom on the briefs were Thomas J. Fallon, assistant attorney general, and James E. Doyle, attorney general.

For the defendant-appellant there was a brief by Leon S. Schmidt, Jr. And Schmidt, Grace & Duncan, Wisconsin Rapids and oral argument by Leon S. Schmidt, Jr.


¶ 1. DONALD W. STEINMETZ, J.

The issue presented in this case is whether in restitution proceedings, Wis. Stat. § 973.20(14)(b)1 allows a defendant to assert a civil rather than criminal statute of limitations, and its related civil tolling and discovery rules, to bar individual crime victims' claims for restitution. The Wood County Circuit Court, the Honorable John V. Finn, presiding...

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