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· 1/15/1970

State v. Whalon

Citations

  • 464 P.2d 730
  • 1 Wash. App. 785
  • 1970 Wash. App. LEXIS 829

How courts have described this case

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

  • reasoning that trial judge’s characterization in front of jury of defense attorney’s sympathetic statement to victim as “highly improper” was a “serious overreaction” that “constituted reversible error.”
  • reversing conviction because (1) court's severe rebuke of the defendant's attorney in the presence of the jury, (2) court's refusal of the testimony of the defendant's wife, and (3) jury listening to tape recording of lineup in the absence of court and counsel
  • reversing conviction because (1) court's severe rebuke of the defendant's attorney in the presence of the jury, (2) court's refusal of the testimony of the defendant's wife, and (3) jury listening to tape recording of lineup in the absence of court and counsel
  • reversing conviction because (1) court’s severe rebuke of the defendant’s attorney in the presence of the jury, (2) court’s refusal of the testimony of the defendant’s wife, and (3) jury listening to tape recording of lineup in the absence of court and counsel
  • reversing conviction because (1) court’s severe rebuke of the defendant’s attorney in the presence of the jury, (2) court’s refusal of the testimony of the defendant’s wife, and (3) jury listening to tape recording of lineup in the absence of court and counsel

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Judges: Pearson

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