Opinion No. Oag 69-82, (1982)

RICHARD ALAN GINKOWSKI, District Attorney Rusk County

You have requested my opinion as to whether sec. 941.29, Stats., created by ch. 141, Laws of 1981, applies to individuals who had received a disposition under the repealed Youthful Offenders Act.

Specifically, you have asked whether a person who had been "convicted" in 1977 of sexual assault under the Youthful Offenders Act, ch. 54, Stats. (1975), may now possess a firearm in view of sec. 941.29, Stats.

In my opinion, persons who received youthful offender dispositions were not "convicted" of felonies. Therefore, those youthful offenders are…