STATE v. QUARTANA

No. 97-0695.

213 Wis.2d 440 (1997)

570 N.W.2d 618

STATE of Wisconsin, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Theodore A. QUARTANA, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided September 24, 1997.


BROWN, J.

Section 968.24, STATS., our codification of the Terry1 stop, allows the detention and temporary questioning of a suspect without arrest for investigative purposes. The last sentence of the statute says: "Such detention and temporary questioning shall be conducted in the vicinity where the person was stopped." In this case involving an investigation of a one-car accident, Theodore A. Quartana was initially questioned at...

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