Criminal Law

Criminal Case Law Update, Week Ending 3-25-11

Posted on March 29, 2011
Courtesy of Law Offices of Dena Alo-Colbeck ?Writing and Research for Washington Attorneys? The following criminal cases of note were decided this week: Washington State Law Washington State Supreme Court: State v. Sandoval: The Court found that in light of the United States Supreme Court decision in Padilla v...

Criminal Case Law Update, Week Ending 3-11-11

Posted on March 14, 2011
The following criminal cases of note were decided this week: Washington State Law Washington State Supreme Court: State v. Hager: The Court reversed a Court of Appeals ruling which concluded that a detective?s statement during trial on Mr. Hager?s first degree child rape charge that Mr...

Criminal Case Law Update, Week Ending 3-4-11

Posted on March 08, 2011
Courtesy of Law Offices of Dena Alo-Colbeck ?Writing and Research for Washington Attorneys? Washington State Law Washington State Supreme Court: State v. Russell: The court held that a trial court is not required to sua sponte give a limiting instruction for ER 404(b) evidence, absent a request for such a limiting instruction...

Case Law Update, Week Ending 2-4-11

Posted on February 08, 2011
The following criminal cases of note were decided this week: Washington State Law Washington State Supreme Court: In Re Discipline of Ferguson: The Court upheld a 90 suspension of Sandra Ferguson?s law license, finding that the disciplinary board?s imposition of that suspension in lieu of the 30 days recommended by the hearing officer was reasonable [...

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Criminal Case Law Update, Week Ending 1-28-11

Posted on January 31, 2011
Courtesy of Law Offices of Dena Alo-Colbeck ?Writing and Research for Washington Attorneys? The following criminal cases of note were decided this week: Washington State Law Washington State Supreme Court: State v. Irby: The Court affirmed the Court of Appeals? decision to reverse Mr...

Criminal Case Law Update, weeks ending 1-22-11

Posted on January 24, 2011
Courtesy of Law Offices of Dena Alo-Colbeck ?Writing and Research for Washington Attorneys? The following criminal cases of note were decided this week: Washington State Law Washington State Supreme Court: State v. Barber: The court overruled State v...

Criminal Case Law Update, Weeks Ending 1-7-11

Posted on January 11, 2011
Courtesy of Law Offices of Dena Alo-Colbeck ?Writing and Research for Washington Attorneys? The following criminal cases of note were decided this week: Washington State Law Washington State Supreme Court: Personal Restraint of Gentry: Death row prisoner Jonathan Lee Gentry brought a challenge to his conditions of confinement as implemented by the Washington State Department [...

Criminal Case Law Update, Week Ending 12-24-10

Posted on December 27, 2010
Courtesy of Law Offices of Dena Alo-Colbeck ?Writing and Research for Washington Attorneys? The following criminal cases of note were decided this week: Washington State Law Washington State Supreme Court: State v. Wilson: The Court held that anticipatory offenses included in an offender score calculation under RCW 9...

Criminal Case Law Update, Week Ending 12-17-10

Posted on December 23, 2010
The following criminal cases of note were decided this week: Washington State Law Division One Court of Appeals: State v. Deer: The Court dismissed without prejudice due to the trial court?s error in allowing the State to amend the information in this case after the State had rested its case...

Criminal Case Law Update, Week Ending 12-10-10

Posted on December 13, 2010
The following criminal cases of note were decided this week: Washington State Law Washington State Supreme Court: State v. Gudgel: Mr. Gudgel filed a CrR 7.8 motion for relief from judgment over seven years after the Okanogan County Superior Court originally entered the sentence...

Criminal Case Law Update, Week Ending 12-3-10

Posted on December 07, 2010
Courtesy of Law Offices of Dena Alo-Colbeck ?Writing and Research for Washington Attorneys? The following criminal cases of note were decided this week: Washington State Law Division One Court of Appeals: State v. Siers: Reasoning that, under State v...

Case Law Update, Week Ending 11-19-10

Posted on November 24, 2010
The following criminal cases of note were decided this week: Washington State Law Washington State Supreme Court: In Re Personal Restraint of Francis: The Court held that there was a double jeopardy violation when Mr. Francis pled guilty to felony murder, first degree attempted robbery, and second degree assault, all arising from the same string [...

Criminal Case Law Update, Week Ending 11-12-10

Posted on November 16, 2010
The following criminal cases of note were decided this week: Washington State Law Washington State Supreme Court: State v. Patel: The Court held that a defendant may be convicted of attempted rape of a child where the alleged victim is a fictitious underage character created by the police...

Criminal Case Law Update, Week Ending 11-5-10

Posted on November 09, 2010
Courtesy of Law Offices of Dena Alo-Colbeck ?Writing and Research for Washington Attorneys? The following criminal cases of note were decided this week: Washington State Law Division One Court of Appeals: State v. Jordan: The court upheld Mr. Jordan?s conviction and sentence, holding that his Texas conviction for voluntary manslaughter was properly included in his [...

Criminal Case Law Update, Week Ending 10-29-10

Posted on November 02, 2010
Courtesy of Law Offices of Dena Alo-Colbeck ?Writing and Research for Washington Attorneys? The following criminal cases of note were decided this week: Washington State Law Washington State Supreme Court In Re Detention of Post: The Court held that the introduction by the State in Mr...

City of Tacoma Dispensaries (Promises Made)

Posted on October 30, 2010
Let me bring you up to speed. First, eight dispensaries received cease and desist letters. Then, the masses gather at a City Council Meeting and Rob McNair-Huff said, “The City Council is not in favor of getting between patients who have a legitimate medical need and access to that medicine...

Reviewing the Proposed Medical Cannabis Statute

Posted on October 30, 2010
You can review the analysis and proposal on the links below. Feel free to add you own input in the comments. * Bill analysis: http://cdc.coop/docs/2011_bill_analysis.pdf * Bill markup: http://cdc.coop/docs/2011_bill_markup.pdf

Police Continue to Harass Patients

Posted on October 30, 2010
On Monday night, Seattle narcotics officers dressed in full tactical gear and armed with pistols and submachine guns raided the apartment of medical cannabis patient, gulf war veteran, and CDC member Will Laudanski. Will was held to the ground at gunpoint while a K-9 unit searched his small apartment to find his two-plant medical grow...

Criminal Case Law Update, Week Ending 10-22-10

Posted on October 25, 2010
Courtesy of Law Offices of Dena Alo-Colbeck ?Writing and Research for Washington Attorneys? The following criminal cases of note were decided this week: Washington State Law Division Two Court of Appeals State v. Mankin: The Court held that the privacy act does not apply to defense interviews of police officer witnesses...

Follow-up of Medical Marijuana Dispensary Cease and Desist

Posted on October 22, 2010
The show down is over. You can read the full article from Seattle Times here. There is another article here. Never underestimate the power of protest.

Cannabis Defense Coalition: Update for Tacoma Safe Access

Posted on October 18, 2010
TACOMA, WASH. OCTOBER 18, 2010 — Medical cannabis providers in Tacoma, Washington were served with cease and desist notices by the city on Friday, an escalation in what activists are calling the city’s war on medical cannabis. Tacoma is home to a dozen or more medical cannabis providers licensed to do business in the city...

Criminal Law Updates for 10/18

Posted on October 18, 2010
Courtesy of Law Offices of Dena Alo-Colbeck ?Writing and Research for Washington Attorneys? The following criminal cases of note were decided this week: Washington State Law Washington State Supreme Court State v. Eriksen: The court held that a Lummi Nation tribal police officer had authority to pursue a vehicle that had committed a traffic infraction [...

Criminal Law Updates

Posted on October 12, 2010
Courtesy of Law Offices of Dena Alo-Colbeck “Writing and Research for Washington Attorneys” The following criminal cases of note were decided in the week of 10/01/10: Washington State Law Washington State Supreme Court City of Aberdeen v. Regan: In this plurality opinion, Justice Fairhurst, writing for the majority and joined by Justices Madsen, Charles Johnson, [...

Criminal Law Updates

Posted on October 10, 2010
Washington State Supreme Court O?Neill v. City of Shoreline: The Court ruled that metadata associated with public records is itself a public record and is subject to disclosure under the Public Records Act. http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/823979...

Videos of the public forum ?Where Is Marijuana Reform Heading??

Posted on September 23, 2010

Marijuana Arrests in Seattle Are On The Rise

Posted on July 07, 2010
Marijuana arrests in Seattle are up, according to todays Seattle Stranger article. The article provides some background on arrests over the last few year and as well as some probing questions. So far, it appears that our City Attorney is standing by his commitment not to prosecute...

Going After the Discovery

Posted on April 22, 2010
Seattle PI  posted today on a young man with some unique expertise. He was able to track down some “alleged” discovery violation over at the Prosecutor’s Office. This is an interesting case for the Defense Bar and will definitely enlighten our future discovery requests...

For DUI Lawyers

Posted on March 17, 2010
Standardized Field Sobriety Testing Certification Student Course (NHTSA Course) April 30, May 1 & 2, 2010 Presented by Lance Platt, Ph.D. and Valdez Malcolm PLLC This training course will certify the attendee in the most current NHTSA approved SFST training curriculum...

DOC and the Tangled Web

Posted on February 15, 2010
An excellent review of the situation revolving around Kathy Parkins and some well drafted public disclosure requests has been posted on Horseass.org. Rather than delve into this matter myself, I will leave it in the able hands of Lee. You can read the full article here.

New Washington State Criminal Law Blog

Posted on January 30, 2010
I wanted to take a moment today and give a plug to Graham Law Blog. This is a fantastic example of what legal blogging is all about. Steve Graham follows not only the hot legal topics in Washington State but also the cases and topics in and around Eastern Washington (often ignored by the West [...

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