State Ex Rel. Unnamed v. Connors

{concurring). The district attorney functions at the juncture of the three branches of government. Listed in the administrative article of the Wisconsin Constitution, the district attorney exercises quasi-executive, quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial powers through enforcement policies.1 In practice the district attorney’s ability to *144decline to prosecute is a significant power, resembling at times the legislature’s power to repeal statutes, the judiciary’s power to acquit and the governor’s power to pardon.2 The majority’s assertions to the contrary *145notwithstanding, majority opinion at…