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IN RE CROSS

No. 79761-7.

309 P.3d 1186 (2013)

178 Wn.2d 519

In the Matter of the Personal Restraint of Dayva CROSS, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

September 26, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Elliot Lobsenz , Carney Badley Spellman , Todd Maybrown , Allen Hansen & Maybrown PS, Seattle, WA, for Petitioner.

Donald James Raz , Attorney at Law, Randi J. Austell , Attorney at Law, James Morrissey Whisman , Daniel Todd Satterberg , Seattle, WA, for Respondent.

David B. Zuckerman , Attorney at Law, Rita Joan Griffith , Attorney at Law, Seattle, WA, Amicus Curiae on behalf of Washington Assoc. of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

John Scott Blonien , Department of Enterprise Services-Off of, Paul Douglas Weisser, Attorney General's Office, Olympia, WA, for Other Parties.

CHAMBERS, J.*

¶ 1 Dayva Cross pleaded guilty to killing his wife and two of her three daughters in 2001 and was sentenced to death. State v. Cross, 156 Wn.2d 580, 592, 132 P.3d 80 (2006). We affirmed his sentence on direct review. Id. When Cross entered his plea he did so by what we commonly call an Alford1 plea...

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