Class C Felony penalties

What crimes are considered Class C felonies?

Secondly, all crimes in Wisconsin are classified by their maximum penalties.  This applies to Class C felonies, other misdemeanors, other labelled felonies, and even unclassified crimes.  Below are some of the crimes considered Class C felonies in Wisconsin:

• Homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle (prior OWI offense)
• Armed robbery
• Use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime
• Intentionally causing great bodily harm to a child (child abuse)
• Possession with intent to deliver cocaine, heroin, or meth
• Bank robbery
• First-degree reckless homicide
• Repeated sexual assault of the same child (3 instances of first or second degree sexual assault of a child)
• Manufacturing, distributing, or delivering cocaine, heroin, or meth
• Kidnapping
• Incest with a child
• Second degree sexual assault of a child
• Second degree sexual assault
• Mayhem
• Homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle
• Trafficking of a child
• Sexual assault of a child placed in a substitute care facility, or sexual assault of a foster child
• Abduction of another’s child
• Physical abuse of a child: intentionally causing great bodily harm

How do we defend my felony case?

Firstly, there’s no easy way to describe how we’re going to defend your specific case on this general website.  Class C felonies carry with them specific issues that we need to address.  But even beyond your specific case, each specific charge is different.  At your initial consultation we’ll certainly begin planning various defenses for your charges.  For example, here are a few issues we may encounter:

• Firstly, sexual assault charges always rely on the credibility of the alleged victim.  Certainly if your accuser is lying, we’ll want to get into that.  Did the victim lie to her therapist?  That might lead us to a Shiffra Green motion.  Did your accuser make up the same allegation against someone else in the past?  That’s also certainly important.  Attacking his or her credibility could certainly mean the difference between winning and losing your case.
• Secondly, did your drug case rely on a search warrant?  If so, and that search warrant is defective, there may be a basis for suppression of evidence used against you.  We’d almost certainly want to attack that bad search warrant and mitigate the information against you.
• Thirdly, did your Class C felony involve the stop of your vehicle?  If police illegally stopped your vehicle and obtained evidence from it, there’s another motion there.  Certainly suppressing the evidence found in that stop makes your case look a little better.
• Finally: trial.  If the government can’t prove its case against you, let’s put it in front of a jury.

This list certainly isn’t exhaustive.  There are dozens of motions and they’re all a bit different.  We’d need to apply the facts of your case to the appropriate legal standards.

Finally, hire Meyer Van Severen, S.C. for your criminal charges

Our criminal defense attorneys dedicate 100% of their practice to defending criminal and drunk driving charges.  That allows us to figure out the very best way to defend your Class C felony charge.

At Meyer Van Severen, S.C. we answer phones 24/7.  Call us at (414) 270-0202 and let’s figure out how to fight your charges.