State v. Luis C. Salinas

¶ 51. (dissenting). At issue in the instant case is whether joinder of several criminal charges against the defendant, Luis Salinas — two charges of intimidation of a victim and one charge each of repeated sexual assault of a child, second-degree sexual assault with use of force, and second-degree sexual assault of a child — was proper under the criminal joinder statute, Wis. Stat. § 971.12(1) (2009-10).1

*41¶ 52. Construing Wis. Stat. § 971.12(1) "broadly,"2 the majority opinion concludes that the sexual assault charges and the victim intimidation charges were properly joined because they "were…