Court Opinion

ID: 9633933
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 12:08:07.295522+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:08:45.679259
License: Public Domain

Wright, J.
(concurring) — I concur with the result reached by the majority for only one of the reasons stated therein.
Were it not for the language of the statute, RCW 9.73-.030 through .090, I would agree that the telephone call here is not a "private conversation." A careful reading of *242the statute, however, compels a different result. The legislature clearly intended to classify such telephone calls as "private conversations," otherwise the exception contained in RCW 9.73.090(1) would be meaningless and surplusage.
Based upon the clear legislative intent and upon the reasoning fully set out in the opinion as to that one issue, I concur in the result.