In Re the Personal Restraint of King

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• stating that “[a] civil contempt sanction is coercive and remedial, and is typically for the benefit of another party; a criminal sanction is punitive and is imposed for the purpose of vindicating the authority of the court”
• upholding as civil a determinate (two-year) sentence which included a purge clause
• court may not impose criminal contempt sanction unless contemnor is afforded same due process rights extended to other criminal defendants
• court may not impose criminal contempt sanction under parallel dependency provision (RCW 13.34.165(2)) unless contemnor has been afforded those due process rights extended to other criminal defendants
• court may not impose criminal contempt sanction unless contemnor is afforded same due process rights extended to other criminal defendants
• contemnor has burden of persuasion as to inability to comply, and evidence must be of a kind court finds credible

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