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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Protasiewicz finds the circuit court court properly dismissed as untimely defendant's request for a judicial substitution in his misdemeanor battery and disorderly conduct case and the court of appeals properly denied defendant's motion for a supervisory writ. Defendant's request for a new judge in his case, which arrived 71 days after a court commissioner entered a not guilty plea on his behalf at a combined initial appearance and arraignment and six days after he was appointed a public defender, is untimely under Wisconsin statutes and local circuit court rules, despite his argument that his delay beyond the applicable deadline was caused by the public defender's office taking so long to appoint him counsel. It is also found that, under precedent, the circuit court had no plain duty to treat defendant's request as timely given the circumstances. Affirmed.