State v. Evans

¶33 (dissenting) — The legislature appropriately limited victims of identity theft to natural persons by using the language “another person, living or dead” in RCW 9.35.020(1) to refer to identity theft victims. Corporations do not live or die but come in and out of existence through the statutorily defined means of incorporation and dissolution. Other statutes that define aspects of life or death refer consistently to natural processes, illustrating that the legislature cannot realistically be said to speak of corporations in metaphors of life or death. Also, several other provisions of the…