State v. Rachwal

There are two issues in this case. The first issue is whether a plea of no contest to a charge in a criminal complaint embodying a sec. 973.12(1), Stats., "repeater provision" alleging a prior conviction constitutes an admission by the defendant *497under the statute of such prior conviction for purposes of sentence enhancement pursuant to sec. 939.62. The circuit court for Outagamie county, Joseph M. Troy, Judge, ruled that such a plea does constitute such an admission.

The second issue is whether, when two criminal actions are joined on motion of the defendant, does the admission of the repeater…