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2017 Amicus Briefs

In re PRP Martin A. Jones – Division II

This joint amicus with the Innocence Project Northwest highlights the new evidence and discredits the science related to the Bunter Mark evidence and the subsequent misleading of the jury through unscientific testimony and potenti...

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State v. Leo – Division II

Court: Washington Court of Appeals: Division II Case No.: 49863-4-II Hearing Date: N/A Case Description: Marvin Leo was a juvenile and under 18 at the time he was convicted of five counts of aggravated murder in a 2000 shooting ...

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Sanchez Ochoa v. Campbell – 9th Circuit

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Case No.: 17-35679 Hearing Date: N/A Opinion: No opinion available yet.

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In re PRP Davis – Washington Supreme Court

WDA and WACDL urge the Washington Supreme Court to clarify the rule and require capital qualified counsel appointed in a PRP to be qualified through experience and training in the procedural and substantive law of post conviction ...

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In re Tarra Simmons – Washington Supreme Court

The ACLU,WDA and numerous others urge the Washington Supreme Court to allow Ms. Simmons to seek a law license. Ms Simmons. The Court should allow rehabilitated person with criminal histories to pursue bar licenses because it incre...

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State v. Salgado-Mendoza – Washington Supreme Court

SYNOPSIS: Should a toxicologist be allowed to testify in a DUI case when his identity was not revealed until the day of trial?

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State v. Granath – Division I

WDA’s amicus argues that State v. W.S., a Division I case that decided the permissible length of a no contact order that a court issues pursuant to a juvenile conviction, was wrongly decided.

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