STATE v. D.L.

No. 96143-3.

484 P.3d 448 (2021)

STATE of Washington, Respondent, v. D.L., Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Washington.

Filed: April 15, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kate Benward , Washington Appellate Project, 1511 3rd Ave. Ste. 610, Seattle, WA, 98101-1683, for Petitioner.

Hilary A. Thomas , Whatcom County Prosecutor's Office, 311 Grand Ave. Ste. 201, Bellingham, WA, 98225-4038, Philip James Buri , Buri Funston Mumford & Furlong, PLLC, 1601 F St., Bellingham, WA, 98225-3011, for Respondent.

Kimberly Noel Gordon , Law Offices of Gordon & Saunders PLLC, 1000 2nd Ave., Suite 3140, Seattle, WA, 98104, Riya Saha Shah , Nadia Mozaffar , Marsha L. Levick , Juvenile Law Center, 1800 Jfk Boulevard, Suite 1900b, Philadelphia, PA, 19103, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Juvenile Law Center.

Melissa R. Lee , Lorraine K. Bannai , Robert S. Chang , Seattle University School of Law, 901 12th Ave., Korematsu Center For Law & Equality, Seattle, WA, 98122-4411, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality.

Joseph August Voss Jr. , Attorney at Law, 1225 S. Weller St. Ste. 420, Seattle, WA, 98144-1906, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of TeamChild.

Julia Mizutani , Attorney at Law, Nancy Lynn Talner , Kendrick Washington , ACLUWA, Antoinette M. Davis , American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, Po Box 2728 Seattle, WA, 98111-2728, Jose Dino Vasquez , Karr Tuttle Campbell, 701 5th Ave. Ste. 3300, Seattle, WA, 98104-7055, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of ACLU of Washington.

Katherine Elizabeth Hurley , La Rond Baker , King County Department of Public Defense, 710 2nd Ave. Ste. 200, Seattle, WA, 98104-1703, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of King County Department of Public Defense.


¶ 1 D.L., a 14-year-old boy, pleaded guilty to a single count of child molestation. The commissioner sentenced D.L. to an extended sentence known as a manifest injustice disposition. By pleading guilty, D.L. agreed that the court could use the probable cause affidavit to establish the facts that constituted D.L.'s conviction. But...

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