Supreme Court Calendar

9:00 A.M.

Olympia

February 25, 2013

Case No. 1 - 88854-0

COUNSEL

State of Washington
     v.
Joel Cameron Condon

Jennifer Joseph/David Trefry

Jodi Backlund/Manek Mistry

SYNOPSIS: Condon was charged, in the alternative, with first degree murder and felony murder. Was there sufficient evidence to convict him of first degree murder and was he entitled to a lesser included offense jury instruction on second degree murder?

Case No. 2 - 89419-1 (consolidated w/89500-7)

COUNSEL

Steve Hambleton
     v.
The Department of Revenue of the State of Washington
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Thomas H. Macbride,
     v.
Department of Revenue

Thomas Culbertson/Laura Black

David Hankins/Charles Zalesky

Rhys Farren/Dirk Giseburt/Richard Klobucher
& Roger Leishman

David Hankins/Charles Zalesky

SYNOPSIS: Whether the 2013 amendments to the Estate and Transfer Act may be applied retroactively.

Case No. 3 - 89147-8

COUNSEL

State of Washington
     v.
Mario Alejandro Medina

Andrea Vitalich

Cynthia Jones/Christopher Gibson & Thomas Kummerow

SYNOPSIS: Does participation in a King County Community Center Alternative Program constitute “partial confinement,” for which an offender is entitled to credit for time served prior to sentencing?

Case No. 4 - 88949-0

COUNSEL

Public Utility District No. 1 of Okanogan County
     v.

State of Washington, et al.

P. Stephen DiJulio/Adrian Winder/Michael Howe
& Michael Schechter

Paul Lawrence/Sarah Johnson

SYNOPSIS: The court considers whether public utility districts are authorized to condemn school lands and, if so, whether the particular school lands at issue in this case are exempt from condemnation either because they are held in trust or because they are dedicated to a particular use insofar as they are presently used for cattle grazing. The court also considers the propriety of Conservation Northwest’s intervention in the case.