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Case Law Updates 11/6/2024 – 11/19/2024

Supreme Court: In re Dependency of M.L.W. and I.A.W. (Dependency)(Termination of Parental Rights: Parent lacked third party standing to raise issue of child’s right to family integrity with younger siblings in termination pr...

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Blake Case Law Updates (11.12.24)

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State v. Harris- WA Supreme Court (11.2024)

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Case Law Updates 10/16/2024 – 11/5/2024

In re Frazier, ___ Wn.2d ___ (No 102,295-6) (Oct. 31, 2024): Post-Conviction PRP (Newly discovered evidence exception to the 1 year time bar for collateral attack in RCW 10.73.100(1) applies to sentencing evidence as well as trial...

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Case Law Updates October 2-15, 2024

State v. Chuprinov: invoking right to remain silent, comment on right to remain silent, improper vouching; Gronquist v. State Department of Corrections: PRA/DOC records

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Case Law Updates September 18-October 1, 2024

Bremerton v. Bright: DUI/vacation; In re Post Sentence Review of Gardner: MHSA; State v. Balles: search and seizure; State v. Gardner: confession/request for counsel; State v. Drake: Blake/resentencing

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Case Law Updates September 3-17, 2024

State v. Olsen: Blake and untimely plea challenges; State v. Willyard: Blake and untimely plea challenges; State v. Smith: impartial jury/juror bias; State v. Kelly: evidence/text messages, prosecutorial misconduct, subsequent con...

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Case Law Updates August 21-September 3, 2024

In re Dependency of Baby Boy B: family defense/shelter care hearing; In re Dependency of A.H.: family defense/appeal; In re Dependency of Z.A.: family defense/burden of proof, family defense/availability of parent; Simbulan v. NW ...

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Case Law Updates August 6-20, 2024

State v. Schlenker: right to counsel/remote appearance, sufficiency of evidence; State v. Roberts: felony murder/sufficiency, ineffective assistance of counsel, prosecutorial misconduct, evidence, Blake/community custody, sentence...

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Erlinger v. United States (2024) (9.2024)

Defendant had both Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to have a jury unanimously determine beyond a reasonable doubt whether past offenses were committed on separate occasions as required for enhanced sentencing penalties under the ...

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