Intoxication
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case State v. Watkins (2002)
Most recently applied in Gish v. Dittmann (December 2017)
1987 a. 399; 2013 a. 307
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
An intoxicated or a drugged condition of the actor is a defense only if such condition is involuntarily produced and does one of the following:
(1) Renders the actor incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong in regard to the alleged criminal act at the time the act is committed.
(2) Negatives the existence of a state of mind essential to the crime.
Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.