MATTER OF PHELPS

No. 94185-8.

410 P.3d 1142 (2018)

In the MATTER OF the Personal Restraint of Todd Dale PHELPS, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Washington.

Filed February 22, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sara I. Beigh , Lewis County Prosecutors Office, 345 W Main St. Fl. 2, Chehalis, WA, 98532-4802, for Petitioner

Suzanne Lee Elliott , Attorney at Law, 705 2nd Ave. Ste. 1300, Seattle, WA, 98104-1797, for Respondent


¶ 1 This case involves the issue of whether a prosecutor's closing argument asserting a victim was "groomed" by the defendant, where testimony of grooming was disallowed during trial, constitutes flagrant and ill-intentioned misconduct requiring reversal. The Court of Appeals, Division Two, granted Todd Phelps's personal restraint...

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