IN RE COMMITMENT OF MATTHEWS

No. 2018AP2142.

959 N.W.2d 640 (2021)

2021 WI 42

IN RE the COMMITMENT OF Tavodess MATTHEWS: State of Wisconsin, Petitioner-Respondent, v. Tavodess Matthews, Respondent-Appellant-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Opinion Filed: May 14, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the respondent-appellant-petitioner, there were briefs filed by Dustin C. Haskell , assistant state public defender. There was an oral argument by Dustin C. Haskell .

For the petitioner-respondent, there was a brief filed by Sara Lynn Shaeffer , assistant attorney general; with whom on the brief was Joshua L. Kaul , attorney general. There was an oral argument by Sara Lynn Shaeffer .

DALLET, J., delivered the majority opinion for a unanimous Court.


¶1 This case is about whether Tavodess Matthews timely requested a judicial substitution under Wis. Stat. § 801.58(1) (2019-20).1 Section 801.58(1) entitles a party in a civil case to substitute the assigned circuit court judge if, among other things, that party files a written substitution...

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