Willer v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““The municipal judge of Outagamie county in the issuance of a warrant and the proceeding had was sitting as a justice of the peace. As such he had no jurisdiction to try the petitioner for the offense charged in the complaint. He would have had no jurisdiction to do anything but bind him over were it not for the provision contained in section 24 of the municipal court act. . . . “In the absence of a request by the petitioner that he be sentenced, the court by the terms of the statute had no jurisdiction to sentence him. While it seems a rather futile proceeding to require, as the act does, that if the person charged with the commission of the offense is brought before the court and enters a plea of guilty he may not be sentenced unless he requests it, nevertheless those are the terms of the act. If he fails to make a request for a sentence, then the only thing the municipal judge acting as a justice of the peace can do is to bind him over for trial, after which, upon renewal of his plea which might be in the other branch of the municipal court for Outagamie county, he might be sentenced because he would then be in a court which had jurisdiction to try the offense.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stecher v. State

2. ““Section 24. 1. Said judge shall have exclusive jurisdiction to institute and conduct examinations in all criminal and bastardy cases arising within said county and the power and jurisdiction to cause to come before him the persons so charged with committing bastardy or criminal offense, and commit them to jail or bind them over as the case may require, and on a plea of guilty by the accused and a request by him to be sentenced, the said judge shall have power, authority and jurisdiction to sentence the accused for such offense.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stecher v. State