STATE v. WARD

No. 2007AP79-CR.

767 N.W.2d 236 (2009)

2009 WI 60

STATE of Wisconsin, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Jennifer L. WARD, Defendant-Appellant-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided June 30, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the defendant-appellant-petitioner there were briefs by T. Christopher Kelly and Kelly, Habermehl & Bushaw, S.C., Madison, and oral argument by T. Christopher Kelly.

For the plaintiff-respondent the cause was argued by Mark A. Neuser, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was J.B. Van Hollen, attorney general.


¶ 1 PATIENCE DRAKE ROGGENSACK, J.

We review an unpublished per curiam decision of the court of appeals,1 which affirmed the circuit court's judgment2 convicting defendant Jennifer L. Ward (Ward) of first-degree reckless homicide. The dispositive issue in this case is whether incriminating statements Ward made during the police investigation subsequent to the death of her seven-week old nephew were not...

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