Court Opinion

ID: 4710866
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-12 00:28:30.743349+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:07:05.621407
License: Public Domain

Goodloe, J.
(dissenting) — The title of RCW 10.95 is "Capital Punishment — Aggravated First Degree Murder". CrR 6.4(e)(1) explicitly provides:
In prosecutions for capital offenses the defense and the state may challenge peremptorily 12 jurors each;. . .
The defendant was charged with aggravated first degree murder, which may be charged as a capital offense. RCW 10.95.020. The applicability of CrR 6.4(e)(1) should not turn on the discretion of the prosecutor, i.e., whether he or she seeks the death penalty. I would hold that the defendant is entitled to 12 peremptory challenges. Therefore, I dissent.
Dore, J., concurs with Goodloe, J.