State v. Zornes, s. 40222
| Decision Date | 14 May 1970 |
| Docket Number | 40223,Nos. 40222,s. 40222 |
| Citation | 469 P.2d 552,78 Wash.2d 9 |
| Court | Washington Supreme Court |
| Parties | w The STATE of Washington, Respondent, v. Robert A. ZORNES and Jenice Zornes, Appellants. |
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State v. Ross
...need only be expressed in `words that fairly convey that intention.'" Kane, 101 Wash.App. at 612,5 P.3d 741 (quoting State v. Zornes, 78 Wash.2d 9, 13, 475 P.2d 109 (1970)).9 In both Zornes and Grant, we held that the legislature included language which conveyed its intent that amendments t......
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State v. Peterson
...State Constitution can, and often does, raise the ceiling to offer greater or equal protections. Id . This court concluded in Olsen and Zornes that article I, section 12 and the Fourteenth Amendment are violated when one or more operative statutes prescribing different punishments for the s......
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State v. Campbell
...denied when a prosecutor is permitted to seek varying degrees of punishment when proving identical criminal elements. State v. Zornes, 78 Wash.2d 9, 21, 475 P.2d 109 (1970). However, "no constitutional defect exists when the crimes which the prosecutor has discretion to charge have differen......
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City of Seattle v. Buchanan
...the activities in question been correctly defined. We have, by dictum, taken note of the principle involved, in State v. Zornes, 78 Wash.2d 9, 20, 475 P.2d 109, 116 (1970), where we It is doubtful whether a legislative declaration contrary to all the evidence can be sustained as constitutio......
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Unbridled Prosecutorial Discretion and Standardless Death Penalty Policies: the Unconstitutionality of the Washington Capital Punishment Statutory Scheme
...149. 144. Id. at 151. 145. Id. 146. 4 W. Blackstone, supra note 118, § 349-350. 147. Id. 148. Wash. Rev. Code § 10.95.040(1) (1981). 149.78 Wash. 2d 9, 475 P.2d 109 150.51 Wash. 2d 99, 316 P.2d 119 (1957). 151. Id. at 101, 316 P.2d at 120. 152. 48 Wash. 2d 545, 295 P.2d 324 (1956). 153. Id.......
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Washington's Second Degree Felony-murder Rule and the Merger Doctrine: Time for Reconsideration
...justify punishing one defendant for manslaughter and one defendant for murder when both committed identical acts? Cf. State v. Zornes, 78 Wash. 2d 9, 23, 475 P.2d 109, 118 (1970): "There is no logical basis for drawing a distinction between an authorization contained in one statute, to char......