Legal Opinion

State v. Abrams

Washington Supreme Court

Decided March 20, 2008No. 79481-2PublishedCited by 56 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

178 P.3d 1021 (2008)

STATE of Washington, Appellant,

v.

Dustin Gene ABRAMS, Respondent.

No. 79481-2.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Argued November 6, 2007.

Decided March 20, 2008.

John Dietrich Knodell III, Teresa Jeanne Chen, Grant County Prosecutor's Office, Ephrata, WA, for Appellant.

David Bruce Koch, Nielsen Broman & Koch PLLC, Seattle, WA, for Respondent.

J.M. JOHNSON, J.

¶ 1 The United States Supreme Court in both Gaudin[1] and Johnson[2] declared that the materiality of a false statement in a perjury prosecution must be submitted to a jury rather than decided by a trial judge. We must…

2Cases cited53 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Teague v. LaneSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
  3. Johnson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
  4. Griffith v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  5. New York v. FerberSupreme Court of the United States · 1982

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3Cited by56 opinions

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