In re the Personal Restraint of Wilson

¶1 In this personal restraint petition, George Anthony Wilson challenges his first degree murder conviction. The conviction was based on an accomplice theory of felony murder. Within the one-year time bar, Wilson collaterally attacked his conviction by filing a motion for relief from judgment in the trial court in 2001. The trial court ordered the motion transferred to this court, but the transfer did not occur and the motion remained in limbo for more than 10 years. We reject the State’s argument that Wilson abandoned his motion by failing to ask what happened to it; Wilson complied with the…