$90,042.12 Awarded in Fees and Costs in Seattle Terry Stop Case by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On August 4, 2011, a federal court in Washington state granted attorneys’ fees and costs on a Plaintiff’s Terry stop verdict. Yet the court reduced the $418,000 fee award request to just $90,042.12 …
News in Brief by California: Marissa Cruz and Paea Tukuafu filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of San Jose police in August 2020, claiming they were “battered and bruised” by cops and subject to unreasonable search and entry. The two were celebrating ahead of Cruz’s 22nd birthday at …
Washington Supreme Court: Defendant Detained for Search at Border Was ‘In Custody’ for Miranda Purposes by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Washington determined that Alejandro Escalante was “in custody” and entitled to the warnings enunciated in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), when he was …
Plenty of Practice Prevents Poor Police Performance by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon It is a rare week to pass without a report of an accidental shooting by police. The reason for better than 99 percent of these accidental weapon discharges is the lack of ongoing firearm training after a …
5-Year Study Shows Police Stop Black Drivers Less Often at Night When ‘Veil of Darkness’ Obscures Race by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In the largest-ever study of racial profiling by police during traffic stops, Stanford University has shown that Black people are much less likely to be stopped after …
Meagher v. King County, WA, Third Amended Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2020 Case 2:19-cv-00259-JLR Document 74 Filed 06/11/20 Page 1 of 26 HON. JAMES L. ROBART 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 7 8 TOBY MEAGHER, through his Litigation Guardian, …
Justice Quarterly, WA, a Longitudinal Analysis of Prisoner and Solitary Populations in Washington State, 2002-2017 Justice Quarterly ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjqy20 Opening the Black Box of Solitary Confinement Through Researcher–Practitioner Collaboration: A Longitudinal Analysis of Prisoner and Solitary Populations in Washington state, 2002–2017 David Lovell , R. Tublitz …
HRDC v. DOJ, WA, Complaint, DEA FOIA, 2020 Case 2:20-cv-00674 Document 1 Filed 05/05/20 Page 1 of 26 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 7 8 HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, a Washington nonprofit corporation, 9 Plaintiff, 10 v. 11 12 …
WA Office of Corrections Ombuds, COVID-19 Monitoring Visit to MCC Report, 2020 STATE OF WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE CORRECTIONS OMBUDS 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW Olympia, Washington 98505 (360) 664-4749 April 17, 2020 Steve Sinclair, Secretary Department of Corrections (DOC) Office of the Corrections Ombuds (OCO) Monitoring Report Enclosed …
Washington Supreme Court Announces PRP Petition ‘Final’ Upon Issuance of Certificate of Finality to Allow Tolling of Federal Habeas Clock by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Answering a question certified to the Court by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the Supreme Court of Washington held on …
Sealed Records Open for View by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Washington state has over 5,500 sealed juvenile records that are once again accessible to law enforcement agencies across the nation after a last-minute amendment for “officer safety” was added to a 2015 bipartisan sentencing reformation bill. Tony Calero conducted …
Lambert v. Kittitas County, WA, Complaint, Medical Care Cost, 2020 2 3 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR YAKIMA COUNTY 4 5 ROBERT MIKEL LAMBERT, Plaintiff, 6 V. 7 8 9 Cause No. KITTITAS COUNTY, a municipal corporation; CLAYTON MYERS, in his official capacity …
Washington Supreme Court Remands for Resentencing Where State Failed to Prove Criminal History by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In an enbanc decision, the Supreme Court of Washington reversed and remanded for resentencing where the State failed to prove a defendant’s criminal history beyond a reasonable doubt. A jury convicted …
Washington Supreme Court Affirms Reversals of Murder Convictions, Overrules Townsend by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In these consolidated cases, the Supreme Court of Washington overruled State v. Townsend, 15 P.3d 145 (Wash. 2001), and affirmed, albeit on different grounds, the decision of the Court of Appeals reversing the felony-murder …
Washington Supreme Court Affirms Warrantless Search of CSLI Data but Holds Convictions for Both First-degree Rape and Felony Murder Predicated on Rape Violate Double Jeopardy by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Washington affirmed the warrantless search of Bisir Bilal Muhammad’s real-time cell-site location information (“CSLI”) based …
Washington Supreme Court Announces Rules for Trial Courts When Implicit Racial Bias Alleged in Jury Decision by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Washington announced procedural rules for trial courts to follow when a post-verdict motion for new trial alleges implicit racial bias of a juror or …
Washington Supreme Court: Failure to Pay Fines Don’t Increase Sentencing Score by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The Supreme Court of Washington held that time spent in jail for failure to pay court fines does not count against an offender at sentencing for a new crime. Matthew T. Schwartz pleaded …
Reichert v. Keefe Commissary Network, WA, Amended Complaint, Debit Release Cards, 2019 Case 3:17-cv-05848-RBL Document 100 Filed 08/09/19 Page 1 of 28 HON. RONALD B. LEIGHTON 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 8 9 10 11 JEFFREY REICHERT, and …
State of Washington DOC Contract-JPay, Amendment No. 9 State of Washington Department of Corrections Contract No. K8262 Amendment No. 9 This Amendment is made by the Washington State Department of Corrections, hereinafter referred to as “Department,” and JPay, Inc., hereinafter referred to as the “Contractor,” for the purpose of amending …
Snohomish County Pays $1 Million Settlement in Death of Man in Chemical Cloud by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Snohomish County, Washington, agreed to pay Michelle Vincent $1 million to settle her claim that the county killed her husband Michael with a chemical cloud. On April 21, 2011, Sergeant Rogers …
