6th Amendment Violation.

Byline: Derek Hawkins

WI Court of Appeals District IV

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Joseph Bruce Reinwand

Case No.: 2017AP163-CR

Officials: Sherman, Blanchard and Kloppenburg, JJ.

Focus: 6th Amendment Violation

Joseph Reinwand appeals a judgment convicting him of first-degree murder for the death of his wife Pamela Reinwand. See WIS. STAT. 940.01(1) (1983-84). Reinwand asserts (but, as we explain below, fails to develop an argument) that he is entitled to a new trial because out-of-court statements made by a person who was unavailable to testify at trial as to those statements were erroneously admitted at trial in violation of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Reinwand also contends that the judgment of conviction should be amended to correct a clerical error. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm Reinwand's conviction, but remand to...