STATE v. DOUGLAS D.

No. 99-1767-FT.

243 Wis.2d 204 (2001)

2001 WI 47

626 N.W.2d 725

IN the INTEREST OF DOUGLAS D., a person Under the Age of 17: STATE of Wisconsin, Petitioner-Respondent, v. DOUGLAS D., Respondent-Appellant-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided May 16, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the respondent-appellant-petitioner there were briefs and oral argument by Eileen A. Hirsch, assistant state public defender.

For the petitioner-respondent the cause was argued by Jeffrey J. Kassel, assistant attorney general, with whom on the briefs was James E. Doyle, attorney general.

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Carol W. Medaris and Wisconsin Council on Children & Families, Madison, Adam Culbreath and National Center for Youth Law, Oakland, California, and Laval S. Miller-Wilson and Juvenile Law Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Juvenile Law Center and National Center for Youth Law.

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Jon G. Furlow, Christine Cooney Mansour and Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, Madison, on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin, Inc.


¶ 1. JON P. WILCOX, J.

This is a review of a court of appeals decision, In the Interest of Douglas D.: State v. Douglas D., No. 99-1767-FT, unpublished slip op. (Wis. Ct. App. Dec. 14, 1999), which affirmed a judgment by the Circuit Court for Oconto County, Judge Richard D. Delforge. The circuit court found that the content of an eighth-grade creative writing assignment authored by the petitioner, Douglas D...

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