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STATE v. LEWIS

No. 2009AP429-CR.

781 N.W.2d 730 (2010)

2010 WI App 52

STATE of Wisconsin, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Carl A. LEWIS, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Opinion Filed March 31, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the defendant-appellant, the cause was submitted on the briefs of John T. Wasielewski of Wasielewski & Erickson of Milwaukee.

On behalf of the plaintiff-respondent, the cause was submitted on the brief of Sally L. Wellman, assistant attorney general, and J.B. Van Hollen, attorney general.

Before BROWN, C.J., NEUBAUER, P.J., and SNYDER, J.

¶ 1 BROWN, C.J.

The main issue in this Sixth Amendment case concerns inculpatory statements made to a jailhouse cellmate by the defendant, Carl A. Lewis, Jr., after he had been provided counsel. The United States Supreme Court has announced the law in this area. Law enforcement is prohibited from using a surreptitious government agent (e.g., a fellow jail cellmate) to deliberately elicit incriminatory statements, by...

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