9:00 A.M.
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Olympia
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September 25, 2012
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Case No. 1 - 86018-1
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COUNSEL
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In re the Personal Restraint Petition of
Lowell Deray Finstad
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Abigail Bartlett
Eric Nielsen/David Koch & Jennifer Sweigert
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SYNOPSIS: In a personal restraint petition, is a petitioner who pleaded guilty and received an exceptional sentence entitled to resentencing because he did not agree to aggravating factors required by statute to impose an exceptional sentence?
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Case No. 2 - 85938-8 (consolidated w/85950-7)
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COUNSEL
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State of Washington, et al.
v.
Alysha V. Velasquez & Douglas P. Hutchison
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Charles Blackman
Jason Schwarz & Whitney Rivera
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SYNOPSIS: Is the district court authorized to distribute public funds to pay for an indigent defendant’s course of alcohol dependency treatment in a deferred prosecution?
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1:30 P.M.
Case No. 3 - 86148-0
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COUNSEL
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City of Seattle
v.
Donald Fuller
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Andrea Chin
Christine Jackson & Kristen Murray
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SYNOPSIS: Can a municipal court impose restitution as part of a suspended sentence?
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Case No. 4 – 87425-5
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COUNSEL
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League of Education Voters, et al.
v.
The State of Washington
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Paul Lawrence/Matthew Segal/Sarah Johnson & Gregory Wong/Michele Radosevich
Maureen Hart/Jeffrey Even & Allyson Zipp
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SYNOPSIS: Initiative 1053, passed by voters in 2010, required tax legislation to receive a two-thirds majority vote in the legislature in order to pass. Initiative 1053 also required a voter referendum for all tax legislation resulting in spending in excess of the state spending limit. Are these requirements constitutional?
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These summaries are not formulated by the Court and are provided only for the convenience of the public.
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