Washington State Courts: Washington State Supreme Court Calendar
Tuesday, May 25, 1999
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9:00 A.M.
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Olympia
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Tuesday, May 25, 1999
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Case No. 1 -67171-1
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COUNSEL
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State of Washington
v.
Jeffrey C. Barnett
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Seth Fine
Oliver Davis
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SYNOPSIS: Whether first degree burglary is a crime against a person for purposes of the community placement statute (RCW 9.94A.120(9)(a)), when committed by entry into an unoccupied commercial building and when no person was injured or threatened in the course of the crime.
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Case No. 2 -67173-7
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COUNSEL
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State of Washington
v.
Dwight Dean Dahl
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Ann Foerschler
Gregory Link
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SYNOPSIS: Whether the defendant was provided constitutionally adequate notice that the State was seeking revocation of the defendant's suspended sentence under the Special Sexual Offender Sentencing Alternative, and whether the court's consideration of hearsay during the revocation proceeding violated due process guarantees.
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1:30 P.M.
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Case No. 3 -67200-8
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COUNSEL
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State of Washington
v.
Jairo Gonzales-Morales
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MacDuffie Setter
James Dixon
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SYNOPSIS: Whether a Spanish language defendant in a criminal case was denied the right to assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution when the trial court used his court-appointed interpreter to translate the testimony of a Spanish language witness for the prosecution.
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Case No. 4 -67225-3
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COUNSEL
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Clayton Thompson
v.
State of Washington, Department of Licensing
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Bruce Finlay
Sharon Eckholm
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SYNOPSIS: Whether suppression of breath test results in a criminal trial, based on improper implied consent warnings, precludes relitigation of the issue in a civil proceeding reviewing the administrative disqualification of the driver's commercial operator's license.
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These summaries are not formulated by the Court and are provided for the convenience of the public only.
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