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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Last week the Washington Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision penned by Judge Steven Gonzalez, reversed a King County Superior Court verdict convicting Daniel Gunderson of felony violation of a no-contact order. The decision drew a line in the sand on 404(b) analysis in domestic violence cases after a series of decisions had expanded the purposes for which the…