Legal Opinion
In re the Personal Restraint of Yates
Washington Supreme Court
Decided March 14, 2013No. 82101-1PublishedCited by 148 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtOwens, J.
¶1 This is Robert Yates’s first personal restraint petition following our decision affirming his death sentence. Yates’s petition includes 25 grounds for relief raising a host of legal issues, including jury summons and excusal procedures, ineffective assistance of counsel, juror bias, and public trial rights. None of Yates’s claims of error clearly merit either oral review by this court or a reference hearing. Yates’s personal restraint petition is therefore dismissed.
STATEMENT OF FACTS
¶2 The details of Yates’s crime are adequately set forth in our opinion in State v. Yates, 161 Wn.2d 714,…
2Cases cited91 opinions
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