State v. Kazee

Jimmie Dickie Kazee appeals a judgment convicting him of three counts of first-degree sexual assault, see § 940.225(l)(b), STATS., one count of robbery, see § 943.32(l)(b), Stats., and one count of armed burglary, see § 943.10(2)(a), Stats. The judgment was entered on Kazee's guilty plea pursuant to the procedure approved by State v. Johnson, 105 Wis. 2d 657, 661-663, 314 N.W.2d 897, 899-900 (Ct. App. 1981), which ruled that pleas authorized by North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25 (1970), may be accepted in Wisconsin. Alford, a capital case, held that the United States Constitution is not…