Brief Bank Information

WDA has created a brief bank for use by its members and those engaged in indigent defense in Washington State. This bank was created by the resource attorneys, who have either written these motions or received them from other practicing attorneys. If you have a motion that you would like to contribute to this bank, please contact the resource attorneys, who will then update and publish it to the bank.

OPD Brief Bank

The Washington State Office of Public Defense (OPD) maintains a brief bank that is based upon the briefs filed for indigent appeals in the Washington State Courts of Appeal and Washington State Supreme Court in the last ten or more years. Follow this link to the OPD Brief Bank.

As with all resources, WDA staff does its best to keep the brief bank updated but it is your obligation to make sure that the caselaw is still current.

• 3.5 Motions
• 3.6 Motions
• 71.09
• Appeals (Felony)
• Assault
• Bail Motions
• Bail/Pre-Trial Release
• Camping Ordinances
• Chemical Treatment Dependency and Evaluations
• Competency
• Compromise of Misdemeanor
• Confrontation
• Corpus
• Cross Exam – Samples
• Defenses
• Discovery
• Disqualification (Judge or Prosecutor)
• DNA
• DOL
• Double Jeopardy
• DUI
• DV
• DWLS
• Family Law and Criminal Law Intersect
• Firearm Rights
• First Amendment
• Forms
• Frye/Forensics
• General Topics
• HIPPA in Criminal Cases
• Hunting Crimes
• Ignition Interlock Issues
• Involuntary Treatment Act (ITA)
• Joinder
• Jurisdiction
• Jury Instructions
• Jury Questionnaires
• Juvenile Court
• Juveniles in Adult Court
• Knapstad Motions
• LFOS
• Mandatory Joinder
• Medical Marijuana
• Misdemeanor Probation
• Misdemeanor Sentencing
• Motions in Limine
• New Trial Arrest Judgment
• NGRI orders
• No Contact Orders
• Post Conviction
• Predicate Offenses
• Probation Hearings
• Prosecutorial Misconduct
• Public Disclosure Act
• Public Records Request
• Radar
• RALJ appeals
• Restitution
• Sanctions
• Second Amendment
• Sentencing (non-LFO)
• Severance
• Sex Crimes
• Speedy Trial
• SPRC 2 counsel
• Stipulated Order of Continuance
• Substitution of Counsel
• Supplying Liquor to a Minor
• Travel to Canada
• Trespass
• Trial Issues
• Vacating and Sealing
• Vague and Overbroad
• Washington State Patrol Documents
• Withdraw Guilty Plea
• Witness Identification
• Writs

Below are the most recently updated documents and links in all brief bank subcategories.