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Mark A. Pitzka v. Wisconsin
Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District II, No. 2024AP650 · judgment June 25, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Does the admissibility of “other acts” evidence that is the subject of a pending, unresolved criminal prosecution in another contemporaneous criminal trial violate a defendant’s constitutional rights afforded by the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Jason David Luczak
Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown LLP
For respondent
Donald V. Latorraca
Wisconsin Department of Justice
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, October 5, 2026 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 05 2026Petition DENIED.
- Jun 24 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Jun 02 2026Waiver of right of respondent Wisconsin to respond filed.
- May 13 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 1, 2026)