Washington Supreme Court· 5/1/1997

State v. Valentine

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132 Wash. 2d 1
935 P.2d 1294
1997 Wash. LEXIS 236

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holding that an officer “was engaged in performance of his official duties” regardless of whether his arrest of the defendant was lawful
holding that a person cannot assert self-defense in an arrest where that person is faced only with a loss of freedom and is not resisting an attempt to inflict injury
declining to address a defendant’s claim of government misconduct for the first time on appeal because the alleged error was not manifest
“Resolution of factual disputes is a task for the trier of fact, not this court.”
\ '[T]he trend in this country has been away from the old rule and toward the resolution of disputes in court.' \ (alteration in original) (quoting Commonwealth v. Moreira, 388 Mass. 596 , 447 N.E.2d 1224 , 1226 (1983) )

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Judges: Alexander, Madsen, Sanders, Smith

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