Washington State Courts - Supreme Court Calendar - May 14, 1996
May 14, 1996
| 9:00 A.M. |
Port Orchard |
Tuesday, May 14, 1996 |
| Case No. 1 - 63317-7 |
Counsel |
Dona L. Felt and Tracy G. Felt
v.
Thomas C. McCarthy & Margaret McCarthy
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J. Robert Leach
Thomas McCarthy, Pro Se
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Whether the doctrine of supervening frustration excuses a real estate developer from making further payments due under a real estate contract because wetlands legislation has rendered the property unsuitable for development.
| Case No. 2 - 63348-7 |
Counsel |
State of Washington
v.
Vicki Jo Aten
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Deborah Kelly
John Hayden
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Whether, in this manslaughter prosecution, a pathologist’s testimony that the victim’s respiratory failure could have been caused by suffocation provided sufficient independent evidence of the corpus delicti of the crime to permit the admission of the defendant’s statements and confession.
1:30 P.M.
| Case No. 3 - 63339-8 |
Counsel |
State of Washington
v.
Michele E. Williams
|
Edward Stemler
Nielsen & Acosta
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Whether an administrative law judge’s finding that a welfare recipient had not intentionally received overpayments collaterally estops the State from prosecuting the recipient for welfare fraud.
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