No.   93-1658-CR(C)

 

STATE OF WISCONSIN IN COURT OF APPEALS

     DISTRICT IV           

                                                                                                                       

STATE OF WISCONSIN,

 

                                                            Plaintiff-Respondent,

 

                        v.                                                                                 ERRATA SHEET

 

STEVEN G. B.,

 

                                                            Defendant-Appellant.

                                                                                                                      

 

 

Marilyn L. Graves

Clerk of Court of Appeals

231 East, State Capitol

Madison, WI   53702

Peg Carlson

Chief Staff Attorney

119 Martin Luther King Blvd.

Madison, WI  53703

 

Court of Appeals District I

633 W. Wisconsin Ave., #1400

Milwaukee, WI   53203-1918

Court of Appeals District II

2727 N. Grandview Blvd.

Waukesha, WI   53188-1672

 

Court of Appeals, District III

740 Third Street

Wausau, WI   54403-5784

Court of Appeals District IV

119 Martin Luther King Blvd.

Madison, WI  53703

 

Jennifer Krapf

Administrative Assistant

119 Martin Luther King Blvd.

Madison, WI  53703

 

Hon. James Evenson 

Portage County Courthouse

1516 Church Street

Stevens Point, WI 54481

Bernadette Flatoff

Trial Court Clerk

Portage County Courthouse

1516 Church Street

Stevens Point, WI 54481

Raymond M. Dall'Osto

Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown

111 E. Kilbourn Avenue

Milwaukee, WI 53202

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas B. Eagon

District Attorney

Portage County Courthouse

Stevens Point, WI 54481

William C. Wolford

Asst. Attorney General

P.O. Box 7857

Madison, WI 53707

 

 

                        PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the attached page 1 is to be substituted for page 1 in the above-captioned opinion which was released on July 31, 1996.

                        Dated this 12th day of December, 2006.

 


No.  93-1658-CR(C)

                        SUNDBY, J.  (concurring).   I agree that the defendant received a fair trial and there was no trial court error.  As difficult as it is for me to believe that there was sufficient evidence to convict the defendant beyond a reasonable doubt, there is no basis under the law upon which to set aside the jury verdict.  See State v. Poellinger, 153 Wis.2d 493, 501, 451 N.W.2d 752, 755 (1990).  However, I urge the supreme court to accept review of this decision, if a petition is filed with the court, to re-examine its per se rule which excludes polygraph evidence without a stipulation.  See State v. Dean, 103 Wis.2d 228, 307 N.W.2d 628 (1981). 

                        The defendant alleges his counsel was ineffective for failing to move for admission of a polygraph examination which supported the defendant's claim of innocence.  In view of Dean, trial counsel cannot be faulted for attempting to introduce evidence which the supreme court has ruled is inadmissible.  I believe Dean needs to be re-examined. 

                        Since 1981, commentators and some courts have recognized the increased reliability of polygraph evidence and have even suggested that to exclude such evidence violates the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to present evidence in his defense.  Two law review articles exhaustively review the changing approach of the courts to polygraph evidence.  A 1991 Kentucky Law Journal Note examines the decision of the Eleventh Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in United States v. Piccinonna, 885 F.2d 1529 (11th Cir. 1989) (en banc).  W. Thomas Halbleib, United