Opinion ID: 2264795
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Heading: Division OneBunker and Williams

Text: ¶ 2 Leo Bunker was pulled over by the Washington State Patrol for speeding while driving his semitractor-trailer. Lillian Hiatt was Bunker's passenger. A records check on Bunker revealed two court orders prohibiting Bunker from contacting Hiatt. Bunker was arrested, charged, and convicted of violating no-contact orders under former RCW 26.50.110.
¶ 3 Donald Williams was convicted by a jury on three felony counts of violating a no-contact order under former RCW 26.50.110. The order prohibited Williams from coming within 500 feet of Linda Poole's residence and work and from having any contact with Poole except phone calls to arrange visits with their five-year-old daughter. ¶ 4 On March 13, 2006, Williams phoned Poole while she was at a grocery store, calling her several profane names. Poole returned home to find Williams waiting for her in an angry and intoxicated state. When Poole told Williams she was leaving to pick up their daughter from day care, Williams tried to take Poole's keys and grabbed her wrist. Poole broke free, and Williams placed his hand on her chest and pushed her. Frightened but uninjured, Poole got into her truck and left. ¶ 5 Williams called Poole while she drove to their daughter's day care. Williams yelled vulgar words over the phone at Poole so loudly that the day care provider was able to hear. Williams said he would trash the house, rip the telephone and computer out of the wall, take the tools and truck, and kidnap the children's dog if Poole did not immediately return home. Poole was afraid to call the police, so the day care provider called 911. An officer accompanied Poole home, but Williams was gone when Poole and the officer arrived. ¶ 6 During dinner with her daughter that night, Poole saw Williams standing at her window, trying to get in. He appeared more intoxicated than before. Poole was afraid and refused to let Williams in. Williams left, and Poole called the police. Williams denied contacting Poole on March 13, 2006, but acknowledged the order and previous violations. A jury convicted Williams of three no-contact order violations. ¶ 7 Bunker and Williams appealed their convictions, arguing that any no-contact order violation must also constitute an act requiring mandatory arrest under RCW 10.31.100(2)(a) or (b) to be a criminal offense. Neither the charging documents nor the jury instructions referenced either subsection of the statute. In a consolidated decision, Division One of the Court of Appeals affirmed Bunker's and Williams' convictions and held that no-contact order violations were crimes regardless of whether the offending conduct also satisfied RCW 10.31.100(2)(a) or (b). State v. Bunker, 144 Wash.App. 407, 183 P.3d 1086 (2008).