State v. Dante R. Voss

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COURT OF APPEALS
DECISION NOTICE
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the bound volume of the Official Reports.
April 4, 2024
A party may file with the Supreme Court a
Samuel A. Christensen petition to review an adverse decision by the
Clerk of Court of Appeals Court of Appeals. See WIS. STAT. § 808.10
and RULE 809.62.

Appeal Nos.
2020AP1878 Cir. Ct. No. 2015CF353

2020AP2163
STATE OF WISCONSIN IN COURT OF APPEALS
DISTRICT IV

STATE OF WISCONSIN,

PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT,

V.

DANTE R. VOSS,

DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

APPEALS from orders of the circuit court for Wood County:
TODD P. WOLF, Judge. Affirmed.

Before Kloppenburg, P.J., Blanchard, and Nashold, JJ.

Per curiam opinions may not be cited in any court of this state as precedent

or authority, except for the limited purposes specified in WIS. STAT. RULE 809.23(3).
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¶1 PER CURIAM. Dante Voss was convicted, pursuant to a plea
agreement, of felon in possession of a firearm and felony bail jumping. He
appeals an order denying his postconviction motion for plea withdrawal without a
hearing based on newly discovered evidence, orders denying his motions for
reconsideration, and an order denying his motion for recusal.1 We conclude that
the circuit court properly denied Voss’s postconviction motion and motions for
reconsideration because they are based on the meritless premise that Voss has a
viable involuntary intoxication defense. We further conclude that Voss has not
established judicial bias. Accordingly, we affirm.

BACKGROUND

¶2 The criminal complaint contained the following allegations. Wood
County sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a single-vehicle rollover crash.
Voss was the driver of the vehicle and the deputies found a semi-automatic .45
caliber pistol in Voss’s waistband. Voss had previously been convicted of fifth-
offense driving with a prohibited alcohol concentration and was thus prohibited
from possessing firearms. He was also on bond at the time for several felony
charges. The State charged Voss with possession of a firearm by a felon, carrying
a concealed weapon, and two counts of felony bail jumping.

¶3 The State subsequently received a toxicology laboratory report
(“State’s toxicology report”) from the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene.
This report showed the presence of prescription controlled substances—
Hydrocodone, Bupropion, and Clonazepam—in Voss’s blood at the time of his

1
These appeals were consolidated for briefing and disposition pursuant to WIS. STAT.
RULE 809.10(3) (2021-22). All references to the Wisconsin Statutes are to the 2021-22 version.

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arrest. As a result, Voss was charged in a separate case (“the OWI case”), in
which he ultimately pleaded guilty pursuant to a plea agreement to operating while
intoxicated, sixth offense. See State v. Voss, No. 2020AP234-CR, unpublished
slip op. (WI App June 17, 2021).

¶4 In the instant case, Voss pleaded no contest to the felon in
possession of a firearm count and to one of the two felony bail jumping counts
pursuant to a plea agreement, and the remaining two counts were dismissed. The
circuit court withheld sentence and placed Voss on four years of probation, which
was subsequently revoked. Following revocation, the court sentenced Voss to a
total of three years of initial confinement and three years of extended supervision.

¶5 Voss’s counsel filed a no-merit appeal and report in this case. Voss
filed a response to the no-merit report, making arguments related only to
sentencing. See State v. Voss, No. 2019AP287-CRNM, unpublished slip op.
at 3-5 (WI App Oct. 29, 2020). This court summarily affirmed and, after noting
that an appeal from a sentence following revocation does not bring an underlying
conviction before this court, concluded that there were no sentencing issues with
arguable merit. See id. at 5.2

2
In its original brief-in-chief, the State argued that Voss’s claims in this appeal are
procedurally barred under State v. Escalona-Naranjo, 185 Wis. 2d 168, 185-86, 517 N.W.2d 157
(1994), because Voss did not raise them in response to the no-merit report previously filed in this
case and did not provide a sufficient reason for failing to do so. In the alternative, the State
requested additional briefing on the merits if we rejected its argument based on Escalona,
pursuant to State v. Tillman, 2005 WI App 71, ¶13 & n.4, 281 Wis. 2d 157, 696 N.W.2d 574, in
which this court approved of this procedure. By order dated August 25, 2023, this court rejected
the State’s Escalona argument, concluding that a reason for Voss not raising those claims was
apparent: even if he had raised them, they would not have properly been before us in the no-
merit appeal. Specifically, as noted in our opinion in the no-merit case, because that appeal was
from sentencing after revocation of probation, it did not bring the original judgment of conviction
before us. Thus, the claims for plea withdrawal that Voss is now making could not properly have
been litigated in the no-merit proceeding. As a result, we ordered the State to file a replacement
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¶6 The same postconviction counsel representing Voss in the no-merit
proceeding in this case represented Voss in postconviction proceedings in the
OWI case. In the OWI case, counsel provided the State’s toxicology report with
Voss’s blood test results to an independent forensic toxicologist, James Oehldrich.
According to Oehldrich’s subsequent report (“the Oehldrich report”), the
interaction of Voss’s prescribed medications on the day of his crash resulted in
Voss’s involuntary intoxication. As a result, Voss’s counsel filed a postconviction
motion in the OWI case, seeking plea withdrawal based on newly discovered
evidence. Voss, No. 2020AP234-CR, at 1-2. Voss alleged that the newly
discovered evidence consisted of an involuntary intoxication defense, a defense he
was not aware of when he entered his plea.3 Id. at 2. The circuit court held an
evidentiary hearing in the OWI case, at which both Voss and the toxicologist
testified. Id. at 3. Voss testified that he took several prescription medications,
including Hydrocodone and Bupropion. Id. The toxicologist testified that Voss
was involuntarily intoxicated because the Bupropion interfered with his ability to

brief, and permitted Voss to file a supplemental reply. After we granted an extension request for
the State to file its replacement brief and subsequently granted Voss numerous extensions to file
his supplemental reply, Voss submitted a reply on March 8, 2024.
3
An intoxication defense is set forth in WIS. STAT. § 939.42 as follows:

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.

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metabolize Hydrocodone, thereby increasing the concentration of Hydrocodone in
Voss’s blood. Id.

¶7 The circuit court denied Voss’s motion, concluding that Voss did not
satisfy the materiality requirement for a newly discovered evidence claim. Id.
The court determined that Voss would not have been entitled to assert an
involuntary intoxication defense at trial, because, among other reasons, the
evidence showed that he took more Hydrocodone than prescribed. Id. On appeal,
we summarily affirmed the court’s denial of Voss’s postconviction motion,
concluding that the court’s factual finding that Voss was not taking his
Hydrocodone as prescribed “is supported by the record and is not clearly
erroneous.” We explained:

Voss testified that he had a prescription to take
Hydrocodone every four to six hours, and that he had taken
the prescribed dosage before the accident. Voss’s medical
records, in contrast, showed that his prescription was to
take Hydrocodone ‘up to three times daily.’ Based on the
evidence, the circuit court reasonably found that Voss
exceeded his prescription by taking Hydrocodone as often
as every four to six hours—four to six times per day—
rather than taking the Hydrocodone no more than three
times per day.

Id. at 4. We further agreed with the court’s legal conclusion that Voss could not
assert the proffered involuntary intoxication defense. Id. Our supreme court
denied Voss’s petition for review.

¶8 After the circuit court’s denial of Voss’s postconviction motion in
the OWI case, Voss, pro se, filed a postconviction motion seeking plea withdrawal
in this case based on newly discovered evidence. As he did in the OWI case, Voss
argued in this case that the newly discovered evidence is an involuntary
intoxication defense based on the same information—the Oehldrich report. In this

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case, however, he asserted the alleged defense with respect to charges of
possession of a firearm and felony bail jumping. As factual support, Voss alleged
that the night before his arrest, he took all of his medications as prescribed, fell
asleep, and later awoke in the county jail with no recollection of how he got there.
Voss also argued that the State violated Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963),
and the criminal discovery statute, WIS. STAT. § 971.23, by failing to provide the
State’s toxicology report before Voss pleaded guilty in this case. In the alternative
to his Brady and § 971.23 arguments, Voss argued that his counsel was ineffective
by not making a discovery request.

¶9 The same circuit court judge who presided over Voss’s OWI
postconviction proceeding denied Voss’s postconviction motion in this case on the
ground that the court had already determined that the new evidence was not
material because an involuntary intoxication defense was not available. In support
of the court’s conclusion in this case, the court attached the transcript of its oral
ruling in the OWI proceeding. Thus, we construe the court to have adopted in this
case the same findings of fact and conclusions of law made in the OWI case
regarding the unavailability of the involuntary intoxication defense.

¶10 Voss subsequently brought two successive motions for
reconsideration. He also brought a motion for recusal on grounds of judicial bias.
The circuit court denied these motions. Voss appeals.

DISCUSSION

I. Postconviction Motion for Plea Withdrawal

¶11 Voss argues that the circuit court erred in denying his postconviction
motion for plea withdrawal without an evidentiary hearing because he alleged

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sufficient facts to entitle him to a hearing on his claims. We disagree for the
reasons that follow.

¶12 A circuit court is required to hold an evidentiary hearing on a
defendant’s postconviction motion when the facts alleged in the motion, if true,
would entitle the defendant to relief, and when the record does not conclusively
demonstrate that the defendant is not entitled to relief. State v. Jackson, 2023
WI 3, ¶11, 405 Wis. 2d 458, 983 N.W.2d 608. Both parts of this test raise issues
of law that we review de novo. Id., ¶8.

¶13 Voss’s postconviction motion first alleges that he is entitled to
withdraw his plea based on newly discovered evidence. For post-sentencing plea
withdrawal based on newly discovered evidence, a defendant must first prove, by
clear and convincing evidence, that “(1) the evidence was discovered after
conviction; (2) the defendant was not negligent in seeking evidence; (3) the
evidence is material to an issue in the case; and (4) the evidence is not merely
cumulative.” State v. McCallum, 208 Wis. 2d 463, 473, 561 N.W.2d 707 (1997).
“If the defendant proves these four criteria by clear and convincing evidence, the
circuit court must determine whether a reasonable probability exists that a
different result would be reached in a trial.” Id.

¶14 Here, because the record conclusively establishes that Voss is not
entitled to relief, the circuit court properly denied Voss’s motion without a
hearing. In this case, as in the OWI case, Voss’s claim of newly discovered
evidence is his alleged involuntary intoxication defense, which is based on the
Oehldrich report. Voss fails to present any persuasive argument that would
undermine the court’s conclusion in the OWI case and in this case—a conclusion
we affirmed on appeal in the OWI case—that the defense is not available to him

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because the evidence showed that Voss took more Hydrocodone than prescribed
by taking Hydrocodone every four to six hours rather than the prescribed amount
of up to three times daily. See State v. Gardner, 230 Wis. 2d 32, 41-42, 601
N.W.2d 670 (Ct. App. 1999) (involuntary intoxication defense not available when
“a patient knowingly takes more than the prescribed dosage”); see also WIS. STAT.
§ 939.42 (“An intoxicated or a drugged condition of the actor is a defense only if
such condition is involuntarily produced ….” (emphasis added)). Although Voss
makes various arguments that the court erred in other respects, he fails to offer any
cogent challenge to the court’s conclusion on this core issue and he therefore
provides no basis for reversal or an evidentiary hearing.4

¶15 Our conclusion rejecting the newly discovered evidence claim
necessarily precludes Voss’s arguments based on Brady and the discovery statute,
WIS. STAT. § 971.23. Voss argues that the State violated Brady by failing to
disclose the State’s toxicology report prior to Voss’s plea of no contest in this
case. Under the Fourteenth Amendment, “suppression by the prosecution of
evidence favorable to an accused upon request violates due process where the
evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment.” Brady, 373 U.S. at 87. The
evidence “must be favorable to the accused, either because it is exculpatory or

4
We note that, contrary to Voss’s testimony at the evidentiary hearing in the OWI case,
which demonstrated that he took Hydrocodone every four to six hours at the time of the offenses,
Voss’s affidavit in this case states that he took Hydrocodone only three times per day, which is
what the circuit court and this court concluded in the OWI case was the prescribed dosage that
Voss exceeded by taking Hydrocodone every four to six hours. Although Voss briefly mentions
in this appeal the averment in his affidavit that he took Hydrocodone only three times per day, at
no point does Voss explain the discrepancy between this averment and his testimony at the
evidentiary hearing in the OWI case, nor does he rely on the averment to develop an argument
challenging the circuit court’s denial of his postconviction motion. Thus, we do not consider this
averment. See State v. Pettit, 171 Wis. 2d 627, 646, 492 N.W.2d 633 (Ct. App. 1992) (we need
not address undeveloped arguments).

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impeaching” and it must be “material” to the defendant’s guilt or punishment.
State v. Wayerski, 2019 WI 11, ¶35, 385 Wis. 2d 344, 922 N.W.2d 468.

¶16 The State’s toxicology report shows that Voss had Hydrocodone,
Bupropion, and Clonazepam in his blood. Voss argues that the report would have
“provided trial counsel with facts to investigate an [involuntary] intoxication
defense,” which, as stated, is what ultimately occurred in the OWI case. However,
we have affirmed the circuit court’s determination that an involuntary intoxication
defense is unavailable because the evidence showed that Voss took more
Hydrocodone than prescribed. As a result, the toxicology report is not favorable
to Voss nor material to his guilt or punishment; therefore, Voss’s Brady argument
fails. Wayerski, 385 Wis. 2d 11, ¶¶35, 56.

¶17 Similarly, Voss argues that the State’s failure to provide the State’s
toxicology report violated WIS. STAT. § 971.23, which, as pertinent here, provides
that “[u]pon demand,” the prosecutor must disclose any “exculpatory evidence,”
§ 971.23(1)(h). Voss argues that the State’s toxicology report was “exculpatory”
under § 971.23 for the same reason he alleges it was exculpatory under Brady,
namely, because it would have provided Voss with a basis for an involuntary
intoxication defense. As stated, we have concluded that the circuit court
reasonably determined that an involuntary intoxication defense is unavailable.
Thus, because Voss has failed to show that the State’s toxicology report is
exculpatory, he likewise fails to show that the State violated § 971.23 by not
disclosing the report.

¶18 As an alternative to his arguments under Brady and WIS. STAT.
§ 971.23, Voss argues that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to make a
discovery request that, according to Voss, would have required the State to

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disclose the State’s toxicology report, thereby leading to an involuntary
intoxication defense. See State v. Domke, 2011 WI 95, ¶34, 337 Wis. 2d 268, 805
N.W.2d 364 (“Wisconsin criminal defendants are guaranteed the right to the
effective assistance of counsel” under the federal and Wisconsin constitutions);
Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687 (1984) (to prevail in an ineffective
assistance claim, a defendant must prove that trial counsel’s performance was both
deficient and prejudicial). This argument fails for the same reason that Voss’s
arguments under Brady and § 971.23 fail: an involuntary intoxication defense is
unavailable because the evidence showed that Voss took more Hydrocodone than
prescribed. Thus, it was not constitutionally deficient or prejudicial for counsel to
fail to request the State’s toxicology report.

¶19 In sum, because “the record conclusively demonstrates that [Voss] is
not entitled to relief,” the circuit court properly denied Voss’s postconviction
motion without holding a hearing on Voss’s claimed involuntary intoxication
defense. See Romero-Georgana, 2014 WI 83, ¶30, 360 Wis. 2d 522, 849 N.W.2d
668.

II. Motions for Reconsideration

¶20 Voss challenges the denial of his two successive motions for
reconsideration. “To prevail on a motion for reconsideration, the movant must
present either newly discovered evidence or establish a manifest error of law or
fact.” Midland Funding, LLC v. Mizinski, 2014 WI App 82, ¶20, 355 Wis. 2d
475, 854 N.W.2d 371 (quoted source and internal quotation marks omitted). Voss
has done neither.

¶21 Voss’s motions for reconsideration challenge various factual
findings that the circuit court made in the OWI case and adopted in this case. But

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none of these challenges address the central finding on which the court relied in
rejecting Voss’s involuntary intoxication defense and that we affirmed on appeal
in the OWI case: that Voss’s own testimony that he took Hydrocodone every four
to six hours, coupled with the undisputed evidence that the prescribed amount of
Hydrocodone was up to three times daily, showed that he was taking more than
the amount prescribed. Voss failed to present any argument in the circuit court to
dispute that central premise, nor does he do so on appeal.

¶22 Voss also argued in his motions for reconsideration that the circuit
court erred by not explaining in detail why it rejected his challenges based on
Brady and WIS. STAT. § 971.23, or his alternative argument of ineffective
assistance of counsel. Voss renews these arguments on appeal. However, the
court’s conclusion that an involuntary intoxication defense was not available to
Voss necessarily precludes these other arguments because they are predicated on
the rejected premise that, had the State provided the State’s toxicology report to
Voss or had his trial counsel requested it, Voss would have had an involuntary
intoxication defense.

III. Motion for Recusal

¶23 Voss challenges the circuit court’s order denying the motion for
recusal that Voss filed after the court had already denied his postconviction motion
for plea withdrawal and one of his two motions for reconsideration. “‘[T]he right
to an impartial judge is fundamental to our notion of due process.’” State v.
Herrmann, 2015 WI 84, ¶25, 364 Wis. 2d 336, 867 N.W.2d 772 (quoted source
omitted). “We presume that a judge has acted fairly, impartially, and without
bias.” Miller v. Carroll, 2020 WI 56, ¶16, 392 Wis. 2d 49, 944 N.W.2d 542.

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There is a “burden on the party asserting the bias to show that bias by a
preponderance of the evidence.” Herrmann, 364 Wis. 2d 336, ¶24.

¶24 “In determining whether a defendant’s due process right to trial by
an impartial and unbiased judge has been violated, Wisconsin courts have taken
both subjective and objective approaches[.]” Id., ¶26. Voss argues objective bias.
“Under the objective approach, courts have traditionally considered whether ‘there
are objective facts demonstrating … the trial judge in fact treated [the defendant]
unfairly.’” Id., ¶27 (alterations in original; quoted source omitted). Whether a
judge’s partiality can reasonably be questioned is a matter of law that is reviewed
de novo. Miller, 392 Wis. 2d 49, ¶15.

¶25 Voss argues that his due process right to an impartial tribunal was
violated by the circuit court’s questioning of Voss’s expert, Oehldrich, during the
evidentiary hearing in the OWI case and by the court going to what Voss contends
were “extreme lengths” in that case “to fabricate evidence that Voss had not taken
his [medication] as prescribed” in order to deny Voss’s request to withdraw his
plea. Because the court in this case relied on its findings and determinations in the
OWI case, Voss concludes that bias in the OWI case results in bias here. As we
now explain, Voss has not rebutted the presumption of impartiality, nor has he met
his burden of establishing bias in the OWI case or in this case by a preponderance
of the evidence.

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¶26 Voss takes issue with the circuit court’s questioning of Oehldrich
regarding the side effects of Voss’s medications and whether those medications
would include instructions to avoid driving while taking the medications.5

¶27 Notably, WIS. STAT. § 906.14(2) expressly permits a circuit court to
question witnesses. See § 906.14(2) (“The judge may interrogate witnesses,
whether called by the judge or by a party.”). Voss argues, however, that the
court’s questions amounted to the court becoming an advocate for the State,
contrary to our supreme court’s holding in State v. Jiles, 2003 WI 66, 262 Wis. 2d
457, 663 N.W.2d 798.

¶28 In Jiles, the circuit court took up a suppression motion filed by the
defendant, even though the State was unprepared and did not have a copy of the
defendant’s motion. Id., ¶¶10-11. The court then presented the facts and
arguments on the State’s behalf, relying on the police reports as evidence, and
denied the motion to suppress. As summarized by our supreme court, “When the
State showed surprise that [the defendant] had filed a suppression motion, the
circuit judge intervened and assumed the State’s burden of establishing the
existence of proper Miranda[6] warnings and voluntariness. The court took over,

5
The full transcript of the evidentiary hearing from the OWI case is not included in the
appellate record in this case, although Voss included it as an appendix to his brief-in-chief. In his
brief-in-chief, Voss quotes the court’s questioning from the hearing that he contends shows bias,
citing his appendix. The State does not object to Voss’s reliance on this hearing testimony. In
fact, in its replacement brief, the State itself asks that we “take judicial notice” of information
from the OWI case “as documents related to them are not in the record of this appeal but the
events recorded are not subject to reasonable dispute.” Thus, we consider in this case the
evidentiary hearing transcript from the OWI case.
6
Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966).

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sua sponte, and dominated the hearing to such an extent that the State could barely
get a word in, much less present evidence.” Id., ¶38.

¶29 The Jiles court reversed the judgment of conviction, concluding that
the defendant’s suppression hearing was “inadequate.” Id., ¶49. In reaching its
conclusion, the court observed that “[t]he prosecutor remained a bystander before,
during, and after the court found that the police report met the State’s burden of
production.” Id., ¶44. The court reasoned: “The [suppression] hearing is an
evidentiary hearing for the parties. It is not a soliloquy for the court. The court
must not permit itself to become a witness or an advocate for one party. A
defendant does not receive a full and fair evidentiary hearing when the role of the
prosecutor is played by the judge and the assistant district attorney is reduced to a
bystander.” Id., ¶39.

¶30 We conclude that the circuit court’s brief questioning during the
evidentiary hearing in the OWI case does not establish bias and is not remotely
similar to what the supreme court concluded was impermissible in Jiles. Thus,
Voss’s comparison to Jiles is inapt.7

¶31 Likewise unpersuasive are Voss’s assertions that the circuit court
showed bias by “fabricat[ing]” evidence to reach its conclusion that Voss did not
take Hydrocodone as prescribed. As stated, we determined on appeal in the OWI

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In his supplemental reply brief, Voss cites three additional cases in support of his
judicial bias claim, but none of the cases cited support the view that the circuit court was
constitutionally biased here. Moreover, one of the cases, State v. Carprue, 2003 WI App 148,
266 Wis. 2d 168, 667 N.W.2d 800, was overturned by our supreme court. See State v. Carprue,
2004 WI 111, 274 Wis. 2d 656, 683 N.W.2d 31.

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case that the court’s factual conclusion on this point was supported by the record
and not clearly erroneous. Voss offers no basis to revisit that conclusion.

¶32 In sum, none of Voss’s arguments suffice to overcome the
presumption that the circuit court “acted fairly, impartially, and without bias” in
either the OWI case or in this case. See Miller, 392 Wis. 2d 49, ¶16. The court
therefore properly denied Voss’s motion for recusal.

IV. Discretionary Reversal

¶33 Voss argues that we should exercise our discretionary authority
under WIS. STAT. § 752.35 to reverse the circuit court. See § 752.35 (“In an
appeal to the court of appeals, if it appears from the record that the real
controversy has not been fully tried, or that it is probable that justice has for any
reason miscarried, the court may reverse the judgment or order appealed from.”).
“[T]he discretionary reversal statute should be used only in exceptional cases.”
State v. McKellips, 2016 WI 51, ¶52, 369 Wis. 2d 437, 881 N.W.2d 258 (emphasis
in original).

¶34 Voss’s asserted grounds for discretionary reversal merely repeat his
various arguments regarding his claimed involuntary intoxication defense. Given
our rejection of this argument, we conclude that this is not an exceptional case in
which discretionary reversal is warranted. See State v. Ferguson, 2014 WI
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discretionary reversal when a party “merely rehashes contentions that we have
already rejected”).8

By the Court.—Orders affirmed.

This opinion will not be published. See WIS. STAT.
RULE 809.23(1)(b)5.

8
To the extent that we have not specifically addressed any other arguments made by the
parties, we have determined that we need not address them here, either because the arguments are
undeveloped, see Pettit, 171 Wis. 2d at 646, or because we have decided the appeal on other
dispositive grounds, see Barrows v. American Family Ins. Co., 2014 WI App 11, ¶9, 352
Wis. 2d 436, 842 N.W.2d 508 (2013).

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