Legal Opinion
State v. Koput
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Decided February 11, 1988No. 85-2244-CRPublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEFFERNAN, CHIEF JUSTICE.
This case comes to us by a petition of the state to review a decision of the court of appeals 1 which reversed a judgment convicting Harold Koput (Koput) of first degree murder. The appeal was from the judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county, Ralph G. Gorenstein, Circuit Judge.
The principal issue for which this court accepted this case on review was whether, in the second phase of a bifurcated criminal trial, the jury verdict must be unanimous in determining that a defendant who, in the first phase, had been found guilty of criminal conduct was to be…
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