State v. Bonilla

Pedro Bonilla appeals from a conviction for second-degree murder, RCW 9A.32.050(l)(a). He objects to the trial testimony of police officers who listened on an extension telephone in the police station when he called the police dispatcher and confessed to murdering his wife. He also challenges the trial court's refusal to grant a change of venue despite pretrial publicity. We affirm the conviction.

On October 17, 1977, Bonilla telephoned the Kelso Police Department from an unidentified location and told the dispatcher that he had shot and killed his wife the night before. He said her body could…