In Re the Personal Restraint of Cook

— Two issues are presented. The first is whether petitioner may advance, in his second personal restraint petition, his claim that his state convictions violated RCW 10.43.040, which, after his conviction and appeal, was interpreted by this court as foreclosing identical state and federal prosecutions. The second is whether petitioner's state convictions were in fact identical to his federal convictions, and thus violated the statute.

Petitioner was involved in a bank robbery in Tukwila, Washington, in January 1976. When police arrived during the bank robbery, petitioner shot a police officer.…