In re the Personal Restraint of Tortorelli

John Tortorelli was found guilty of theft, trafficking in stolen property, and criminal profiteering arising from his business of salvaging stray logs and submerged trees from Lake Washington. Tortorelli made several challenges to his convictions in his direct appeal, *86which were rejected by the Court of Appeals. In this personal restraint petition he raises numerous additional challenges, including insufficiency of the evidence that the logs and trees were “the property of another,” as required by the statute under which he was charged, RCW 9A.56.020(l)(a), and ineffective assistance of…