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IN RE GENTRY

No. 86585-0.

316 P.3d 1020 (2014)

179 Wn.2d 614

In the Matter of the Personal Restraint of Jonathan Lee GENTRY, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided January 23, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy Kent Ford , Rita Joan Griffith , Attorney at Law, Seattle, WA, for for Petitioner(s).

Randall Avery Sutton , Kitsap Co Prosecutor's Office, Port Orchard, WA, for Respondent(s).

Sarah A. Dunne , ACLU of Washington Foundation, Nancy Lynn Talner , Attorney at Law, Cassandra Stubbs , ACLU Capital Punishment Project, Brian Stull , ACLU Foundation, Durham, NC, for amicus counsel for American Civil Liberties Union.

Lyle Alan Tenpenny , Yarmuth Wilsdon PLLC, Seattle, WA, Sherrilyn Ifill , Christina Swarns , Johanna Steinberg , Jin Hee Lee , Vincent Southerland , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, New York, NY, Jason A. Leckerman , Lucretia C. Clemons , Lindsay D. Breedlove , Marcel S. Pratt , Ballard Spahr LLP Philadelphia, PA, Ethan Chernin , Ballard Spahr LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for amicus counsel for Naacp Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.

STEPHENS, J.

¶ 1 Jonathan Lee Gentry was convicted in 1991 of the aggravated first degree murder of 12-year-old Cassie Holden and sentenced to death by a jury. Gentry is African American and Holden was white. Gentry's direct appeal before this court was unsuccessful. State v. Gentry, 125 Wn.2d 570, 888 P.2d 1105 (1995). One of the issues he raised there was a claim that the decision...

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