Washington Supreme Court· 1/29/2004

State v. Thomas

Citations

150 Wash. 2d 821

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

holding that the appellate court “must defer to the trier of fact on issues of conflicting testimony, credibility of witnesses, and the persuasiveness of the evidence”
evaluating whether State opened the door to cross-examination on a prior suspect's possible motives to murder the victim
finding a startling event occurred based on the circumstantial evidence of the declarant being described as “ visibly shaken” and scared
stating that polygraph tests are unreliable
“[T]his court will not review issues for which inadequate argument has been briefed or only passing treatment has been made.”
credibility determinations are for the trier of fact and are not subject to review on appeal

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Judges: Alexander, Bridge, Chambers, Fairhurst, Ireland, Johnson, Madsen, Owens, Sanders

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