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Washington Pretrial Release UAs Invalidated
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2010
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2010, page 47
In three consolidated criminal cases, the Court of Appeals for Washington state held that a standard pretrial release condition requiring weekly urinalysis (UA) tests was inappropriate.Washington residents Amber Dee Rose, Danielle Wilson and Kevin Wentz were charged with criminal offenses. The state recommended pretrial release for all three defendants, ...
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