State v. Wilson

In each of these cases, the trial court ordered the prosecutor to produce a key State witness for a pretrial interview with the defense. Despite each prosecutor’s best efforts, neither was able to do so before the court-imposed *4deadline and the trial judge dismissed each case pursuant to CrR 8.3(b). At issue here is whether the prosecutors’ failure amounted to governmental misconduct sufficient to support dismissal under CrR 8.3(b). We hold that neither prosecutor’s actions amounted to misconduct so egregious as to support dismissal and the trial court should have considered less extreme…