MATTER OF DAVIS

No. 89590-2.

395 P.3d 998 (2017)

In the MATTER OF the Personal Restraint of Cecil Emile DAVIS, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Washington.

Filed May 18, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger A. Hunko , Attorney at Law, 13720 W. Raven Ln., Bremerton, WA, 98312, Paula Tuckfield Olson , Law Office of Paula T. Olson, 4020 N. Vassault St., Tacoma, WA, 98407-1106, for Petitioner.

Mark Evans Linquist , Michelle Hyer , Pierce County Prosecutor's Office, 930 Tacoma Ave. S., Rm. 946, Tacoma, WA, 98402-2102, Kathleen Proctor , Pierce County Prosecutor's Office, 930 Tacoma Ave. S., Rm. 946, Tacoma, WA, 98402-2171, for Respondent.


¶ 1 Cecil Emile Davis was sentenced to death for brutally murdering Yoshiko Couch. His direct appeal was unsuccessful. He now challenges his death sentence in a personal restraint petition. He argues that Washington's death penalty system unconstitutionally fails to protect defendants with intellectual disabilities from execution...

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