Personal Restraint Petition of John Edward Mines, Jr.

FILED OCT 8, 2015 In the Office of the Clerk of Court W A State Court of Appeals, Division III IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON DIVISION THREE In re Personal Restraint Petition of: ) No. 25729-1-111 ) JOHN E. MINES, Jr., ) ) PUBLISHED OPINION Petitioner. ) BROWN J. - In 2002, John Edward Mines, Jr. and two other men picked up a woman in their van. When the woman refused to perform sexually for Mr. Mines, she was violently raped, severely beaten, and strangled. Eventually, the men threw her out of the van in an isolated area. She crawled to a residence and reported the rape.…