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IN RE YATES

No. 82101-1.

296 P.3d 872 (2013)

177 Wn.2d 1

In the Matter of the Personal Restraint Petition of Robert Lee YATES, Jr., Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

March 14, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald Dean Ness , Attorney at Law, Port Orchard, WA, Jeffrey Erwin Ellis , Oregon Capital Resource Center, Portland, OR, Steven Witchley , Ellis Holmes & Witchley PLLC, Seattle, WA, for Petitioner.

Kathleen Proctor , Donna Yumiko Masumoto , Karen Anne Watson , Pierce County Prosecutor's Office, Tacoma, WA, for Respondent.

Timothy Norman Lang , Paul Douglas Weisser , Attorney General's Office, Olympia, WA, for Other Parties.

OWENS, J.

¶ 1 This is Robert Yates's first personal restraint petition following our decision affirming his death sentence. Yates's petition includes 25 grounds for relief raising a host of legal issues, including jury summons and excusal procedures, ineffective assistance of counsel, juror bias, and public trial rights. None of Yates's claims of error clearly merit either oral review by this court or a reference hearing. Yates's personal restraint petition is...

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