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The case centered on whether a woman arrested for drug possession was unlawfully seized without probable cause when a police officer took her driver’s license to his squad car for a background check and didn’t give it back while questioning her.
MADISON, Wis. (CN) The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday handed down a ruling in a case over whether an unconstitutional seizure has occurred when police take a driver’s ID to their squad car without reasonable suspicion of a crime.
According to Friday’s decision, Sheboygan police stopped Heather VanBeek on the night of Nov. 12, 2017, based on an anonymous call saying two people were suspiciously sitting in a truck parked on the street for over an hour, during which time a third person came to the car with a backpack and left without it.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday declined a request from Republicans to adopt new redistricting rules meant to keep litigation over drawing the state s next political maps in the state Supreme Court.Â
The decision, handed down via an unsigned order, represents a defeat for Republicans as Wisconsin lawmakers gear up to draw the state s next set of 10-year maps in a political environment that is already more difficult for the GOP given they have lost control of the governor s office since the last map-drawing process 10 years ago. The court determined that, as drafted, the procedures proposed in this administrative rule petition are unlikely to materially aid this court s consideration of an as yet undefined future redistricting challenge, and voted to deny the petition, the court said. In the decision, however, justices said the denial of the petition doesn t predict whether the court would bypass lower courts to take up a redistricting case,