State v. James Elvin Lagrone

¶ 1. This is a review of an unpublished decision of the court of appeals, State v. Lagrone, No. 2013AP1424-CR, unpublished slip op. (Wis. Ct. App. Apr. 7, 2015), which affirmed the Milwaukee County circuit court's judgment of conviction and order denying defendant James Elvin Lagrone's ("Lagrone") postconviction motion for *7an evidentiary hearing and a new trial on the question of Lagrone's mental responsibility.1

¶ 2. Criminal defendants possess a fundamental constitutional right to testify in their own defense. See, e.g., State v. Anthony, 2015 WI 20, ¶¶ 46, 48, 361 Wis. 2d 116, 860 N.W.2d 10…