Matter of Personal Restraint of Holmes

At issue is whether the personal restraint petitioner has established good cause for not having raised at an earlier time the issues raised in his second personal restraint petition, as required by RCW 10.73.140. The Court of Appeals dismissed the petition on the ground that petitioner has failed to make the good cause showing. We affirm.

In 1984, petitioner was paroled from his Washington sentence for two negligent homicide convictions. He violated parole by leaving the state and traveling to California without permission. Thereafter, on May 6,1985, petitioner's parole was suspended and an…