Supreme Court Calendar

9:00 A.M.

Olympia

March 17, 2011

Case No. 1 – 84246-9

COUNSEL

MARTIN MELLISH
          v.
FROG MOUNTAIN PET CARE, et al.

Gerald Steel

David Horton/David Alvarez

SYNOPSIS: The court will decide whether Mellish’s motion for reconsideration of the Jefferson County Hearing Examiner’s decision granting Frog Mountain Pet Care a conditional use permit and variance tolled the 21-day time limit on filing a land use petition under RCW 36.07C.040.

Case No. 2 – 84148-9 (consolidated w/84150-1)

COUNSEL

STATE OF WASHINGTON
          v.
MICHAEL TYRONE GRESHAM
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STATE OF WASHINGTON
          v.
ROGER ALAN SCHERNER

Mary Kathleen Webber

Maureen Cyr

Brian McDonald

Eric Lindell

SYNOPSIS: Does RCW 10.58.090, which permits admission of evidence of a defendant’s commission of prior sex offenses in a prosecution for a current sex offense, violate either the United States Constitution or the Washington Constitution?  If so, was admission of such evidence in Scherner’s trial permissible as evidence of a common scheme or plan?


1:30 P.M.

Case No. 3 – 84066-1

COUNSEL

STATE OF WASHINGTON
          v.
JEREMY MICHAEL ANDERSON

Timothy Whitehead

Peter Tiller

SYNOPSIS: Whether the defendant’s right to cross examine witnesses was violated when the trial court admitted testimony from a sexual assault clinic nurse.

Case No. 4 – 83377-0

COUNSEL

In re the Personal Restraint Petition of

HARRY N. CARRIER,
          Petitioner.



Jeffrey Ellis

Kathleen Proctor/Melody Crick

SYNOPSIS: Harry Carrier was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole under the “two strikes” law based in part on a prior conviction that was dismissed after Carrier served a term of probation.  The Court will decide whether Carrier’s personal restraint petition is timely and whether it was proper for the trial court to count the dismissed conviction as a strike.


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