Dave was nominated by his peers and selected by a committee of federal judges and lawyers specializing in federal criminal defense to serve on the Criminal Justice Act (CJA) panel of attorneys qualified to be appointed to federal criminal cases. Dave has obtained sentences below the federal sentencing guidelines for clients charged with fraud, smuggling, gun, and drug charges in the Federal District Court for the Western District of Washington.
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In State v. Wade, Division One of the Washington State Court of Appeals affirmed the second-degree murder conviction of Gary Wade for the December 2010 strangulation death of Michelle Thornton, finding that it was not error for the trial court to exclude proffered evidence that Ms. Thornton’s ex-boyfriend, not Mr. Wade, was a possible suspect in her death.
Ms. Thornton was strangled in her…