If you provoke someone into attacking a third person, Wisconsin law still allows you to defend that third person under specific, limited circumstances, and a jury instruction that says otherwise is grounds for a new trial.

When the DHS fails to meet the 72-hour notice requirement and a court dismisses the revocation petition, the DHS can immediately refile without physically releasing the NGI committee from custody, so long as it complies with the 72-hour requirement on the new petition.

Circuit courts may order involuntary medication to restore trial competency when the Sell factors and statutory requirements are met, and appellate courts must defer to factual findings unless clearly erroneous.

Two prior domestic abuse convictions from the same incident count as convictions on “2 or more separate occasions” under the domestic abuse repeater statute, so the number of convictions matters, not whether they arose from separate events.

A defendant’s prior refusal of a warrantless blood draw can lead to civil consequences like an IID order, and criminal charges for violating those civil consequences do not violate the Fourth Amendment under Birchfield, Dalton, or Forrett.

If you plead guilty to some charges but enter a deferred judgment agreement on another count in the same case, you cannot appeal the convictions until that deferred count is fully resolved by dismissal or conviction.

Google is a private actor when it scans user accounts for child sexual abuse material, so its searches do not trigger Fourth Amendment protections, and law enforcement can view the flagged files without a warrant under the private search doctrine.