JAMA v. GONZALEZ

Appeal No. 2019AP629.

954 N.W.2d 1 (2020)

2021 WI App 3

Jama I. JAMA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jason C. GONZALEZ and Wisconsin Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company, Defendants-Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Opinion Filed: December 10, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the plaintiff-appellant, the cause was submitted on the briefs of David J. Lang and Kevin G. Raasch of Judge Lang & Katers, LLC, Wauwatosa.

On behalf of the defendants-respondents, the cause was submitted on the brief of Peyton B. Engel , of Hurley Burish S.C., Madison.

Before Blanchard, Kloppenburg and Nashold, JJ.


¶1 This appeal presents the issue of whether a former criminal defendant may, as a plaintiff, sue his or her former criminal defense attorney for legal malpractice when that plaintiff alleges that he or she can show actual innocence as to some, but not all, of the criminal charges in the underlying criminal case, and...

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