9:00 A.M.
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Olympia
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Thursday, February 27, 2003
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Case No. 1 – 72554-3
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COUNSEL
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Keith A. Pacheco,
v.
John R. Ames, D.D.S.
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Patrick Fannin
John Versnel, III/James Owen, Jr.
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SYNOPSIS: Whether, in this action for dental malpractice, the trial court erred in giving a res ipsa loquitur instruction when there was evidence that the injury could have occurred without negligence on the defendant’s part.
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Case No. 2 – 72872-1/72875-5
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COUNSEL
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City of Seattle,
Respondent,
v.
Andrew Guay
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State of Washington,
v.
Donald Ackerman
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Mary Lynch
Christine Jackson
Deanna Fuller
Jon Fox/Andrea King
Elizabeth Padula
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SYNOPSIS: Whether, for purposes of meeting rule-based speedy trial deadlines, authorities bringing criminal charges in courts of limited jurisdiction have the authority to issue a transfer order to secure the presence of defendants who are incarcerated in other counties.
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1:30 P.M.
Case No. 3 – 72633-7
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COUNSEL
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State of Washington,
v.
Herbert D. Hardesty
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Andrew Metts, III
Janet Gemberling
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SYNOPSIS: Whether, when a criminal charge is first filed in district court and later filed in superior court, the “time elapsed in district court” for purposes of the speedy trial period includes time spent in jail in another county on an unrelated matter.
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Case No. 4 – 72541-1
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COUNSEL
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State of Washington,
v.
Kirk Kindsvogel
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Andrew Metts, III
Scott Staab
Douglas Phelps
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SYNOPSIS: Whether the defendant’s conviction for manufacturing marijuana must be overturned pursuant to CrR 4.3.1, the joinder of charges rule, because the state had earlier prosecuted him for domestic violence, after his wife told a police officer that he had assaulted her and also was growing marijuana.
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