Aug. 16, 2017 – The Dane County Circuit Court has an exhibit storage area that is bursting at the seams. To make room for current case exhibits, the Clerk of Court is giving notice that it will follow the procedure in SCR 72.01(46) to destroy criminal case exhibits after Oct. 1, 2017.

SCR 72.01(46) provides for destruction of criminal case exhibits “twenty years after entry of final judgment or until every person in custody as a result of the … proceeding has reached his or her discharge date, provided that return of the exhibit has been offered to the proffering party.” The destruction of non-criminal case exhibits can take place after one year from the date of the judgment, given that the return of the exhibit has been offered to the proffering party, per SCR 72.01(45).

Below is a list of Dane County cases with case numbers, names of defendants, and names of defense counsel of record on cases ranging from the 1960s through present day. If you were defense counsel on any of the cases listed, and you offered exhibits to the court on those cases, and you want to receive those exhibits back into your custody, please contact Dane County Clerk of Circuit Court Carlo Esqueda at Carlo.Esqueda@wicourts.gov or (608) 266-4679.

Exhibits unclaimed by Oct. 1, 2017, will subsequently be destroyed per SCR 72.01(45) and (46).