In November, I wrote a blog article ("Appellate Filers Beware: Electronic Changes to the Record on Appeal") about electronic changes made to the circuit court record when circuit court clerks electronically transmit the record to the appellate court.
As an unintended consequence, the computer system of the Court of Appeals’ clerk’s office was reordering that record. After the circuit court clerk’s certification, it moved all transcripts to the bottom of the list, thereby making the record identifications in the clerk of circuit court’s certification – required by Wis. Stat. section 809.15 – incorrect.
I am happy to report that the problem has been rectified. For those records transmitted on or after Dec. 21, 2018, the computer system of the Court of Appeals’ Clerk’s office is no longer moving the transcripts in the record after the official certification.
Therefore, counsel once again should be able to rely on the certification from the clerks of the circuit courts, which should match the record at the appellate level.
Verification Still Advised
As I detailed in my last blog article, counsel can and should still verify what constitutes the appellate record.
To access a listing of the record electronically, counsel should log onto the Appellate Court e-filing system, click on “My Cases” and under each case listed, you will see three links:
Clicking on “View appeals document index” provides the listing of the appellate record as it stands at the Court of Appeals.
For appellate records filed on or after Dec. 21, 2018, that list should match the clerk of the circuit court’s certification of the record.
