In re the Personal Restraint of Monschke

¶1 In this personal restraint petition (PRP), Kurtis William Monschke asks us to order a new trial or a reference hearing regarding his conviction for aggravated first degree murder. He argues that (1) his trial counsel were ineffective when they did not do a proper investigation or pretrial preparation of his defense expert witness who, in testifying, undermined key elements of Monschke’s defense and (2) it was prosecutorial misconduct for the State to reach a plea agreement with Monschke’s codefendant Tristain Frye based on a personal friendship between the elected prosecutor and Frye’s…