State v. Pugh

¶ 1. Melvin Pugh appeals the judgment entered on his guilty plea to unlawfully possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. See Wis. Stat. § 941.29(2)(a). The dispositive issue on appeal is whether the circuit court properly denied Pugh's motion to suppress evidence of the gun he was carrying when the police stopped and seized him.1 On our de novo review of the legal issue of whether the police lawfully seized Pugh, we conclude that they did not, and, accordingly, reverse.

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¶ 2. The only person testifying at the suppression hearing was one of the arresting officers, Timothy Keller, who had been…