State v. Brown

Following a jury trial, the defendant, Charles E. Brown, was convicted of armed robbery on July 19, 1973, and was sentenced to the Wisconsin state prison system for an indeterminate term not to exceed twenty-five years. On appeal, we affirmed the judgment of conviction in an unpublished per curiam opinion dated September 30, 1975. Brown v. State, 69 Wis.2d 805, 233 N.W.2d 491 (1975). Thereafter, the defendant filed a motion for postconviction relief pursuant to sec. 974.06, Stats., 1975, contending that his constitutional right to present a defense was violated by the trial court’s exclusion…