Legal Opinion
State v. Long
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided August 4, 1982No. 9500-5-IPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilliams, J.
The defendant, Charles E. Long, was charged by information and convicted by a jury of first degree assault. His appeal from the judgment entered on the verdict principally concerns the reliability of a hypnotized witness. We reverse.
The facts are these: On August 5, 1980, in Snohomish County, Long, in the presence of two witnesses, repeatedly stabbed Gregory Freeman with a knife partially severing his jugular vein, collapsing a lung and lacerating his heart. The police arrived shortly thereafter, Freeman was taken to the hospital, Long said that he acted in self-defense and the two witnesses…
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