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 January the Washington Supreme Court struck down a statute which changed the rules of evidence to allow “propensity evidence” in sex offense prosecutions. The Court ruled, inState v. Gresham, that the legislature’s tinkering with the rules of evidence violated the courts’ prerogative to define the Rules of Evidence and was therefore an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers…