Supreme Court Calendar

Supreme Court Calendar - June 15, 2000

June 15, 2000

9:00 A.M. Olympia Thursday, June 15, 2000

Case No. 1 -68116-3 (& 68201-1, 68501-1) COUNSEL
In re the Detention of

Scott W. Brooks,
      v.
State of Washington
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In re the Detention of

Scott W. Brooks
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In re the Detention of Rudolph Franklin.

State of Washington,
           Respondent,
      v.
Rudolph Franklin,
           Appellant.


David Hirsch

Michele Hauptman
David Hackett

Douglass McCrae
Shawn Crowley

David Hackett


 

Michele Hauptman
Dana Cashman

Dennis Carroll
Leslie Garrison

SYNOPSIS: Whether the 1995 amendments to the Sexually Violent Predator Act unconstitutionally eliminated the requirement that the jury consider less restrictive alternatives to total confinement.

Case No. 2 - 68370-1 COUNSEL
State of Washington,
      v.

Hans W. Greiff
Jeffrey Sullivan
Michael McCarthy

Hugh Spall

SYNOPSIS: Whether the State's failure to disclose what a police witness would say at trial, or admission of hearsay to explain the absence of rape test results, were harmless errors.


1:30 P.M.

Case No. 3 - 68466-9 COUNSEL
State of Washington
      v.
Aaron C. Brown
Kasey Kneip

Jerry Makus

SYNOPSIS: Whether the prison misbehavior statute, RCW 9.94.070, delegates too much legislative authority to the Department of Corrections.

Case No. 4 - 68804-4 COUNSEL
Gary Dean Broad and Denise Broad,
v.
Mannesmann Anlagenbau AG
Nate Mannakee
Howard Goodfriend
Catherine Smith

James Horne
Carrie Carter

SYNOPSIS: Certified questions from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit concerning how to effect timely service of process on a German defendant in Germany when service must be made pursuant to the Hague Convention on service of process.

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