State v. Clark

— After deciding to seek the death penalty for Richard M. Clark, the State did not serve the special notice on Clark or his counsel personally. Instead, relying on a long-standing agreement between the Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office and the Public Defender Office for daily pickup of papers, the State left the notice in a designated box, and a Public Defender staff person picked it up, stamped it "received,” and delivered it to the defendant’s attorney. Although the notice was filed and received by defense counsel within the statutory time period, the Snohomish County Superior Court…