24 Wash. App. 681 - State v. Gakin’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 36 Wash. 2d 367 - State v. Goebel · 40 Wash. 2d 18 - State v. Goebel · 1 Wash. App. 785 - State v. Whalon · 74 Wash. 2d 102 - State v. Etheridge · 16 Wash. App. 195 - State v. Upton
Most-quoted passages
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“that a child has died as a result of an accident in the absence of any intent on his part to harm the child, evidence of prior and subsequent incidents involving the defendant's treatment of children, including the deceased, may be relevant and necessary to prove an essential ingredient of the state's case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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