State v. Townsend

he principal issue we are called upon to resolve is whether a Spokane police officer violated a provision in Washington’s privacy act when he saved and printed e-mail and real time client-to-client ICQ messages between Donald Townsend and a fictitious child. We conclude that the act was not violated because Townsend impliedly consented to the recording of his e-mail and ICQ *670communications. We, therefore, uphold the decision of the Court of Appeals affirming Townsend’s conviction in superior court on a charge of attempted second degree rape.

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The facts which we set forth hereafter are largely…