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MATTER OF PERSONAL RESTRAINT OF MOORE

No. 56644-5.

116 Wn.2d 30 (1991)

803 P.2d 300

In the Matter of the Personal Restraint of PAUL PRESTON MOORE, Petitioner.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

January 10, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Bouvart and Symone Scales, for petitioner.

C.C. Bridgewater, Prosecuting Attorney, and David R. Koss, Deputy, for respondent.

Rita J. Griffith on behalf of Washington Appellate Defender Association, amicus curiae for petitioner.

Kenneth O. Eikenberry, Attorney General, and Thornton A. Wilson, Assistant, amicus curiae for respondent.

BRACHTENBACH, J.

By personal restraint petition, Paul Preston Moore challenges the life without possibility of parole sentence he received pursuant to his conviction on a plea of guilty to first degree aggravated murder in 1980. He claims that the sentence is not authorized by former RCW 9A.32.040 and RCW 10.94.020.1 He also claims that his sentence violates the fifth and sixth amendments to the...

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