State v. Romano

How courts have described this case

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• concluding there was an ex parte communication where a judge, during a current proceeding, contacted third parties to verify the defendant's income without the defendant's knowledge
• sentencing judge's ex parte communication regarding defendant's income, for purposes of setting restitution, was not revealed to defendant until after sentencing, creating an appearance of unfairness
• sentencing judge’s ex parte communication regarding defendant’s income, for purposes of setting restitution, was not revealed to defendant until after sentencing, creating an appearance of unfairness
• judge’s ex parte communication with consultants regarding defendant’s case violated due process by creating an appearance of unfairness notwithstanding the lack of any showing the judge was affected by the communication

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sherman v. State
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-11-16· cited 143×
• State v. Watson
  Washington Supreme Court· 2005-10-13· cited 20×
• Noordin v. Abdulla
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1997-11-14· cited 15×
• State v. Scales
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1997-03-07· cited 14×
• State v. Watson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2004-03-09· cited 9×
• State v. Balkin
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1987-06-01· cited 8×
• In Re Custody of R.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1998-01-16
• State Of Washington, V Adrian Contreras-rebollar
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2018-07-03

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• In Re Murchison.
  Supreme Court· 1955-05-16· cited 2,510×
• State v. Madry
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1972-12-19· cited 65×
• State v. Dainard
  Washington Supreme Court· 1975-07-10· cited 29×
• State v. Giebler
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1979-02-13· cited 24×