No. 19-5876

Joachim Dressler v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County

Lower Court: Wisconsin
Docketed: 2019-09-09
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: censorship civil-rights content-seizure criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech freedman-v-maryland judicial-review prior-restraint procedural-safeguards southeastern-promotions-ltd-v-conrad
Key Terms:
FirstAmendment DueProcess Privacy
Latest Conference: 2019-10-11
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Do this Court's First Amendment 'prior restraint' holdings that command 'strict procedural safeguards' designed to obviate the dangers of a freewheeling censorship system, permit Wisconsin to authorize the seizure — from a home — of any, unspecified, First Amendment-protected printed and filmed materials officers can find; permit a court to declare the mere 'act of possessing' them as 'other acts' evidence to admit their message-content as inculpatory criminal evidence to 'prove' the defendant is homosexual, expressly deny a Freedman adversary hearing and 'prompt judicial review;' and threaten sanctions for seeking Freedman compliance any First Amendment merits review in its courts?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Do this Court’s First Amendment “prior restraint” holdings that command “strict ; procedural safeguards” designed to obviate the dangers of a freewheeling censorship system, see Freedman y. Maryland, 380 U.S. 51, 58 (1965) and Southeastern Promotions Ltd. v. Conrad, 420 U.S. 546 (1975), permit Wisconsin to authorize the seizure — from a home — of any, unspecified, First Amendment-protected printed and filmed materials officers can find; permit a court to declare the mere “act of possessing” them as “other acts” evidence to admit their message-content as inculpatory criminal evidence to “prove” the defendant is homosexual, expressly deny a Freedman adversary hearing and “prompt judicial review;” and threaten sanctions for seeking Freedman compliance any First Amendment merits review in its courts? — . _<

Docket Entries

2019-10-15
Petition DENIED.
2019-09-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/11/2019.
2019-09-19
Waiver of right of respondent Circuit Court of Wisconsin to respond filed.
2019-03-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 9, 2019)
2019-01-14
Application (18A727) granted by Justice Kavanaugh extending the time to file until March 8, 2019.
2018-12-28
Application (18A727) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 7, 2019 to March 8, 2019, submitted to Justice Kavanaugh.

Attorneys

Circuit Court of Wisconsin
Scott Edwin RosenowWisconsin Department of Justice, Respondent
Scott Edwin RosenowWisconsin Department of Justice, Respondent
Joachim Dressler
Joachim E. Dressler — Petitioner
Joachim E. Dressler — Petitioner