MATTER OF LIGHT-ROTH

No. 94950-6.

422 P.3d 444 (2018)

In the MATTER OF the Personal Restraint of Kevin LIGHT-ROTH, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Washington.

Filed August 2, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann Marie Summers , Amy R. Meckling , King County Prosecutor's Office, 516 3rd Avenue, Suite W554, Seattle, WA 98104-2362, for petitioner.

Jeffrey Erwin Ellis , Law Office of Alsept & Ellis, 621 S W Morrison Street, Suite 1025, Portland, OR 97205-3813, Robert S. Chang , Melissa R. Lee , Seattle University School of Law, 901 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122-4411, for respondent.

Nancy Lynn Talner , Vanessa Torres Hernandez , Attorney at Law, 901 5th Avenue, Suite 630, Seattle, WA 98164-2008, Eric Riley Nusser , Terrell Marshall Law Group, 936 N. 34th Street, Suite 300, Seattle, WA 98103-8869, for Amicus Curiae (American Civil Liberties Union of Washington).

Thomas E. Weaver, Jr. , Attorney at Law, P.O. Box 1056, Bremerton, WA 98337-0221, for Amicus Curiae (Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers)


¶ 1 Kevin Light-Roth was convicted of second degree murder in 2004, and the trial court sentenced him to 335 months' confinement. In an untimely personal restraint petition (PRP), Light-Roth argued that State v. O'Dell, 183 Wn.2d 680,

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