State v. Thompson

This is an appeal from a conviction of second-degree assault under RCW 9.11.020 (4) , 1 with a special verdict that the defendant was armed with a firearm at the time of the commission of the offense. The defendant assigns error to: (1) the failure of the court to instruct on the lesser offense of third-degree assault; (2) the propriety of the reasonable doubt instruction; (3) the rejection of his proposed instructions on self-defense; and (4) the exclusion of the results of a polygraph examination.

Lanny G. Thompson, the defendant, became involved in an argument with Premo Trudeau, a…