Dennis Sutrick (Photo source: Brown Co. Jail)
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Dennis Sutrick’s appeal of his conviction for the August 2020 murder of a woman at an Ashwaubenon hotel was upheld Tuesday.
Sutrick was sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleaded no contest to first-degree reckless homicide.
He appealed, arguing he didn’t understand the plea deal, and his lawyer was ineffective.
In a 12-page ruling Tuesday, however, the state Court of Appeals rejected his arguments.
“Sutrick begins by arguing that his trial attorney was constitutionally ineffective in ten respects. Three of these arguments lack arguable merit, for the reasons already explained above. Namely, based on trial counsel’s testimony at the postconviction hearing, which the circuit court credited, trial counsel was not ineffective by misinforming Sutrick of the plea agreement’s terms, by signing Sutrick’s name on the plea questionnaire and waiver of rights form, or by signing Sutrick’s name on that form without his permission. Sutrick’s remaining ineffective assistance claims also lack arguable merit. Under these circumstances, Sutrick has not shown any arguably meritorious basis to claim that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective,” the ruling states.
Sutrick is currently housed at the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility, DOC records show.
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