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STATE v. ROMERO-OCHOA

No. 95905-6.

440 P.3d 994 (2019)

STATE of Washington, Petitioner, v. Leonel ROMERO-OCHOA, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Washington.

Filed May 16, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Britta Ann Halverson , Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney, 930 Tacoma Avenue S, Room 946, Tacoma, WA 98402-2171, for Petitioner.

Casey Grannis , Nielsen Broman & Koch, PLLC, 1908 E. Madison Street, Seattle, WA 98122-2842, for Respondent.

David J. Ward , Legal Voice, 907 Pine Street, Suite 500, Seattle, WA 98101-1818, for Amicus Curiae (Legal Voice).

Jennifer Ammons , Northwest Justice Project, 716 Tacoma Avenue S, Tacoma, WA 98402-2206, for Amicus Curiae (Northwest Justice Project).

Grace S. Huang , AP Institute On Gender-Based Violence, 2366 Eastlake Avenue E, Suite 322B, Seattle, WA 98102-3672, for Amicus Curiae (The Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence, The Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence).

Thomas E. Weaver, Jr. , Attorney at Law, P.O. Box 1056, Bremerton, WA 98337-0221, David T. Sulzbacher , Attorney at Law, 1037 NE 65th Street, #80304, Seattle, WA 98115, Rita Joan Griffith , Attorney at Law, 4616 26th Avenue NE, PMB 453, Seattle, WA 98105-4523, for Amicus Curiae (Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers).

¶1 A jury convicted Leonel Romero-Ochoa of burglary, unlawful imprisonment, assault, and multiple counts of rape, arising from an incident in which he broke into a woman's home, beat her, and raped her twice. At trial, Romero-Ochoa sought to admit evidence that the victim had applied for a U visa in connection with these crimes...

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