STATE v. VICE

No. 2018AP2220-CR.

961 N.W.2d 1 (2021)

2021 WI 63

STATE of Wisconsin, Plaintiff-Appellant-Petitioner, v. Adam W. VICE, Defendant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Opinion Filed: June 16, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff-appellant-petitioner, there were briefs filed by Kara L. Janson , assistant attorney general; with whom on the brief was Joshua L. Kaul , attorney general. There was an oral argument by Kara L. Janson .

For the defendant-respondent, there was a brief filed by Frederick A. Bechtold ; Taylors Falls, Minnesota. There was an oral argument by Frederick A. Bechtold .

An amicus curiae brief was filed on behalf of The Innocence Project, Inc., The Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, and the Wisconsin Innocence Project by Carrie Sperling , Keith Findley , and University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison; with whom on the brief was Lauren Gottesman ; New York, New York.

KAROFSKY, J., delivered the majority opinion of the Court, in which ZIEGLER, C.J., ROGGENSACK, REBECCA GRASSL BRADLEY, and DALLET, JJ., joined, and in which HAGEDORN, J., joined except for ¶25 and footnote 14. HAGEDORN, J., filed a concurring opinion.


¶1 This case is about a post-polygraph interview. We are tasked with deciding whether the circuit court1 erred when it granted Adam Vice's motion to suppress, concluding that the statements he made during a post-polygraph interview were involuntary. The court of appeals2

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