STATE v. ALLEN

No. 76912-5.

147 P.3d 581 (2006)

STATE of Washington, Respondent, v. Donovan Ben Patrick ALLEN, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided November 30, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reed Manley Benjamin Speir, Attorney at Law, University Place, WA, for Petitioner.

Susan Irene Baur, Cowlitz Co. Prosecutor's Office, Kelso, WA, Pamela Beth Loginsky, Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorney, Olympia, WA, for Respondent.


CHAMBERS, J.

¶ 1 We are asked to determine whether any rational trier of fact could have convicted Donovan Allen of aggravated first degree murder upon the evidence properly admitted in this case. Allen confessed to killing his mother but challenges, among other things, the sufficiency of the evidence that this killing was premeditated and aggravated by robbery. We affirm.

FACTS

¶ 2 About a month after Sharon Cox was killed in her Longview...

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