The State of Washington, Respondent, v. Dawn Marie Sullivan, Appellant

¶1 Dawn Sullivan appeals her conviction for second degree assault. She challenges the trial court’s refusal to excuse a juror who may have known the complaining witness and its decisions to give a first aggressor jury instruction and not to give a multiple assailants instruction. And she claims prosecutorial misconduct in closing argument to which she did not object. We reject each of these arguments. The record shows that the juror’s possible acquaintance with a witness did not affect the juror’s ability to be fair and impartial. The evidence at trial justified a first aggressor instruction.…