Legal Opinion
Joshua Frost v. Ron Van Boening
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 21, 2016No. 11-35114PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge KOZINSKI; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge TALLMAN.
OPINION
KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:
In 2003, Joshua Frost was charged in state court with participating in an eleven-day spree of armed robberies and a burglary. Frost’s attorney wanted to argue during summation that the • state hadn’t met its burden of proof and, in the alternative, that Frost committed the crimes under duress. The King County Superior Court erroneously refused to allow counsel to make these alternative arguments, so he chose to argue duress. The Washington Supreme Court held that the superior…
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