Legal Opinion
In Re the Personal Restraint of Peters
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided February 29, 1988No. 19031-8-IPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSwanson, J.
By personal restraint petition, Herman Thomas Peters asserts that he was denied effective assistance of counsel.
The State alleged that on January 18, 1983, Peters stabbed a patron in a Seattle tavern after the patron declined to buy Peters a beer. On March 25, 1983, petitioner Peters entered an Alford 1 guilty plea to a charge of second degree assault while armed with a deadly weapon. A judgment and sentence to this effect was entered on June 8, 1983.
On June 16, 1986, Peters filed a personal restraint petition, alleging, inter alia, that he had been denied effective assistance when counsel…
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