DUI While Armed
Recently there’s been some chatter on the list-serve about hypothetical clients (HC) who are arrested for DUI and are either personally armed or have a firearm somewhere in the vehicle. The firearm ultimately gets seized and several different questions have arisen. First, let’s deal with the general issue of having a firearm in the vehicle,
Read MoreDealing with Hendrickson on a Corpus motion
In State v. Hendrickson, 140 Wash.App. 913 (Div. II, 2007), the Division II Court of Appeals seems to disregard our own Supreme Court’s rule of law that mere ownership of a vehicle – coupled with presence at the scene – is insufficient to establish corpus delicti. This was established in the Washington Supreme Court’s review
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