Docket No. 79209-7 (from Court of Appeals Division II Case No. 34039-9)  Facts: Petitioner Gene Champagne filed suit against his employer, respondent Thurston County, in the Superior Court for Thurston County, claiming that the county’s practice of paying its employees any additional pay earned at the end of the month subsequent to the month in which it is earned violates Washington Administrative Code §296-128-035 Continue reading →

Docket No. 79121-0 (from Court of Appeals Division II Case No. 32402-4)  Facts: After police discovered a marijuana growing operation and a methamphetamine manufacturing laboratory in a garage located on his property, petitioner Roy Neff entered into an agreement with the respondent state of Washington to submit to a stipulated facts trial in exchange for several of the charges against him being dropped and was subsequently convicted of unlawfully manufacturing a controlled substance while armed with a firearm in the Superior Court for Pierce County. Continue reading →

Docket No. 79114-7 (from Court of Appeals Division II Case No. 33322-8)  Facts: Respondent Stephanie Lilyblad was convicted of telephone harassment in the Superior Court for Cowlitz County after threatening her children’s paternal grandmother during a phone conversation. Lilyblad subsequently appealed her conviction on grounds that the trial court had improperly instructed the jury with regard to Washington Revised Code §9.61.230’s intent requirement insofar as it failed to instruct the jury that the intent to harass must exist at the time that the defendant initiates the phone call. Continue reading →

Docket No. 79064-7 (from Court of Appeals Division II Case No. 33082-2)  Facts: Petitioner Alfred Kistenmacher was ordered committed as a sexually violent predator pursuant to Washington Revised Code §71.09 after a trial in which a forensic psychologist testified on the basis of his examination of Kistenmacher that Kistenmacher is a pedophile and an exhibitionist. Continue reading →