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April 8, 2009

Death Row Inmate Files Appeal

Filed under: Criminal Justice News — lawtech2oo8 @ 9:52 pm

Man identified as Cal Coburn Brown is on Washington’s death row is a convicted King County murder and with his execution scheduled for Friday he and his attorneys have filed an appeal.

Browns day in court is scheduled for Wednesday, when his attorneys appeal to a Thurston County judge to delay the execution until a trial can be held to decide if lethal injection violates Brown’s rights. By the way if you need a superb Washington Criminal attorney may i recommend this site.

Brown was convicted to die December 27, 1993 after being convicted by a jury in King County for the rape, torture and murder of Holly Washa two years earlier. According to the evidence presented Brown had held the woman captive in a SeaTac hotel room for two days during the rape and torture and then placed her body in the trunk of his car.

At the time of Brown’s arrest was attempting a similar crime in California according to reports.

Brown has appealed his conviction having it rejected twice at the state Supreme Court level.

According to the State Attorney General’s Office there arguing that Brown could have filed this complaint months or years earlier, while his attorneys argue that he is appeal she joined that of Donald Ray Stenson was also fighting states lethal injection procedures.

According to Brown’s Seattle attorney Gil Levy, the procedure that is used causes undue suffering and amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.

If the appeal fails Brown will be the first Washington death row inmate to be put to death in over seven years.

April 7, 2009

King County dui and Accident News

Filed under: auto related — lawtech2oo8 @ 11:16 pm

King county Assessor Scott Noble was driving on Interstate 5 when he pulled over to the shoulder and made a U-turn in his 2004 Toyota Highlander heading southbound in the northbound lanes.

The State Patrol stated this is when he struck a Jeep Liberty head on in the northbound lanes. Witnesses also told police that they saw the 2004 Toyota Highlander weaving in and out of traffic.For information on an excellent King County dui lawyer you can go here.

According to State Patrol Officer Cliff Pratt the driver of the Jeep Liberty identified as Leslie Workman age 26 and resident of Oak Harbor and her passenger Lyndsey Jones age 24 were transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle to be treated for the injuries sustained in the accident. Nobel was also transported to the same hospital for the serious injuries he sustained during the accident which mandated surgery.

All in all,  Officer Eric Purcell arrived on the scene of the accident and after observing Noble he reported the King County Assessor had red watery eyes, and a strong odor of alcohol. Officer Purcell asked Noble if he had been drinking and he stated he had been drinking red wine, he also stated that he had drank to much when asked how much he had drunk.

When the blood alcohol level was tested by the Washington Sate Patrol Toxicology Lab Noble’s blood alcohol at the time of the accident was .22 according to reports.

April 6, 2009

Nagila Pizza Being Sued For Alleged Food Poisoning

Filed under: Insurance litigation — lawtech2oo8 @ 2:21 am

In Los Angeles area legal and Insurance litigation news, according to reports a woman identified as Sherri Hoffman a resident of Orange County, has filed a lawsuit against Nigila Pizza after being allegedly served contaminated food that caused her to contract food poisoning.  It is good to know an attorney I suppose.Hoffman is asking for medical expenses, lost wages, and other costs in her suit against the pizza restaurant where she states that after attending a party that was catered by the restaurant she became ill.

 Served at the occasion were vegetarian pizza, vegetarian lasagna and several types of salad, from which Hoffman and her attorneys allege was contaminated and cause her to suffer from food poisoning.

 There has been no comment from the Nigila Pizza restaurant about the lawsuit or the evidence that will presented in California’s Los Angeles County Superior Court in front of Judge S. Biderman. By the way if you need a good Los Angeles Accident attorney  then might I recommend the Law offices of Bob Mansell. He is one of the best in all of southern California and Los Angeles region, and he is also a personal injury lawyer as well..

 

Hoffman and her attorneys stated that Hoffman suffered personal injury, whether by accident or not,and other guests that attended the party also became ill after eating the food that was catered by the restaurant. It is alleged that Nagila Pizza was negligent in preparing, storing and selling contaminated food which made Hoffman ill enough to be hospitalized, by her attorney and lawsuit against the restaurant. Well that is accident news from Los Angeles.

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