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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
In the Matter of the Personal Restraint of ) No. 98340-2 ) ANTOINE EUGENE DAVIS, ) En Banc ) Petitioner. ) Filed : August 11, 2022 ) _______________________________________)
MADSEN, J.—Antoine Eugene Davis was 21 years old when he committed and
was convicted of first degree murder and second degree attempted murder. RCW
9A.32.030(1)(a) (murder in the first degree), .050(1)(b) (murder in the second degree);
RCW 9A.28.020(1) (attempted murder in the second degree). He received a standard
range sentence of 767 months. Davis filed this personal restraint petition (PRP) more
than one year after his judgment and sentence finalized and contends it is timely for two
reasons: (1) In re Personal Restraint of Monschke 1 constitutes a significant, material, and
retroactive change in law that applies to his de facto life sentence and (2) recent advances
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in neuroscience for late-aged adolescents qualify as newly discovered evidence. RCW
10.73.100(6), (1).
Because Davis seeks retroactive application of Monschke, he must identify, among
other things, a holding that is retroactive and that applies to him. This he fails to do.
Monschke concerns only defendants who were sentenced pursuant to RCW 10.95.030(1),
and Davis was convicted under different statutes that do not mandate life sentences.
Further, Monschke concerned a mandatory life sentence provision as applied to 19- and
20-year-old defendants. Davis is 21 years old.
Davis also fails to show that recent neuroscience constitutes newly discovered
evidence, another exception to the time bar. Even if he was able to do so, Davis fails to
show prejudice because Miller v. Alabama, 2 Monschke, and other juvenile sentencing
cases have not been applied to 21-year-old defendants, and he fails to show there is a
connection between his circumstances and the recent science. Because Davis does not
satisfy any of the statutory criteria that exempt his petition from the one-year time bar, we
affirm the Court of Appeals’ order dismissing Davis’s PRP as untimely.
BACKGROUND
Davis relies on the facts from his direct appeal, and they are undisputed.
Believing that Mario Spearman had ordered the shooting of their friend, Davis and three
associates decided to seek retribution. State v. Davis, noted at 170 Wn. App. 1005, 2012
WL 3264239 at *1. They located Spearman in his car at a traffic intersection. One of
2 567 U.S. 460, 132 S. Ct. 2455, 183 L. Ed. 2d 407 (2012).
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Davis’s group carried an assault rifle and Davis carried a handgun. While Spearman’s
car was stopped, Davis and two associates left their car, ran to Spearman’s car, and
opened fire. The group fired about 30 bullets of different sizes at the car before leaving
the scene. Spearman was killed, the front-seat passenger was injured and survived, and
the two back-seat passengers (a woman and her child) were not seriously wounded.
Davis was 21 years old when he committed the charged crimes.
Police arrested Davis and the three members of his group. They were charged
with one count of first degree murder for Spearman’s death and three counts of attempted
first degree murder for the other passengers. The individual driving Davis on the night of
the murder pleaded guilty to lesser offenses and testified against Davis and the group.
The jury convicted all three of first degree murder and the lesser included offense of
attempted second degree murder for the passengers. Davis requested an exceptional
mitigated sentence or one at the bottom of the range because, at his age, it would
“essentially” take Davis’s life away. Pet’r’s Suppl. Br., Attach. at 25 (transcript of
Davis’s sentencing hearing). Defense counsel stated that Davis’s actions were “out of
character,” id. at 24, and argued for an exceptional 516-month sentence based on a
“multiple offense policy.” State’s Resp. to PRP, App. B (Wash. Ct. App. No. 79937-1-I
(2019)) at 3-4 (defendant’s sentencing memorandum). Davis did not seek an exceptional
sentence based on his youth.
The sentencing judge indicated that she tried but was unable to find a reason to
mitigate the sentences for Davis and his accomplices. The judge imposed the low end of
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the sentencing ranges for all the defendants. Davis received 767 months in confinement
(approximately 64 years), including 240 months for firearm enhancement time.
Davis appealed only his convictions for attempted murder. Davis, 2012 WL
3264239 at *2. In 2012, the Court of Appeals affirmed in an unpublished decision. The
mandate issued in March 2013. Davis filed three collateral attacks in the following
years. 3 He filed the current petition in 2019 in this court, seeking a new sentencing
hearing. The motion was transferred to the Court of Appeals for consideration. Davis
argued that recent neuroscience constitutes newly discovered evidence and exempted his
otherwise untimely petition under RCW 10.73.100(1). In support of his PRP, Davis
included a declaration from Dr. Laurence Steinberg, an adolescent developmental
psychologist, which describes the evolution of neuroscience in later-aged adolescents.
The State countered that the late-adolescent brain research on which Davis relied was not
new and that Davis could have presented the arguments prior to filing the PRP.
Division One of the Court of Appeals dismissed the petition as untimely and
successive. Order of Dismissal, In re Pers. Restraint of Davis, No. 79937-1-I, at 2
(Wash. Ct. App. Mar. 4, 2020). The court noted that Davis made a similar argument in
an earlier petition that the sentencing court failed to consider his relative youth as a
mitigating factor, and that Davis did not explain why he did not raise the argument
previously. Next, the court concluded that Davis failed to show the evidence would
probably change the result at trial because sentencing courts have always had discretion
3 State’s Resp. to PRP at 3 (Court of Appeals nos. 67283-5, 70678-1, 78312-2), App. D (Supreme Court cause no. 95977-3).
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to consider youth and Davis presented no evidence showing the court declined to take his
youthfulness into consideration. Id. at 2 (citing In re Pers. Restraint of Light-Roth, 191
Wn.2d 328, 336-38, 422 P.3d 444 (2018)).
Davis sought review in this court, which we granted and consolidated with In re
Personal Restraint of Rivas (No. 98031-4). Order, No. 98340-2 (Wash. Nov. 5, 2021).
In December 2021, Rivas alerted the court that he would be imminently resentenced and
intended thereafter to withdraw his motion for discretionary review. The court granted
the joint motion to strike oral argument and dissolved the consolidation on December 15,
2021. Davis remained on our docket and proceeded independently for consideration.
ANALYSIS
Relief by way of collateral challenge to a conviction is an “extraordinary” remedy
for which petitioners must overcome a “‘high standard before [we] will disturb an
otherwise settled judgment.’” In re Pers. Restraint of Finstad, 177 Wn.2d 501, 506, 301
P.3d 450 (2013) (quoting In re Pers. Restraint of Coats, 173 Wn.2d 123, 132, 267 P.3d
324 (2011)). Generally, petitioners must bring a collateral attack against their judgment
and sentence within one year of that judgment becoming final. RCW 10.73.090(1), (2).
An untimely petition may be considered if the judgment was not valid on its face, the
court lacked competent jurisdiction, or the petition is based solely on one or more of the
exceptions to the time bar listed in RCW 10.73.100. Davis alleges two such exemptions:
(1) Monschke is a retroactive change in the law that is material to his sentence, RCW
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10.73.100(6), and (2) recent neurological studies of late-aged adolescents constitute
newly discovered evidence, RCW 10.73.100(1). For the following reasons, we disagree.
1. PRP of Monschke
This court’s decision in Monschke is split between a lead opinion, concurrence,
and dissent. In Monschke, two defendants, aged 19 and 20, were convicted of aggravated
first degree murder pursuant to RCW 10.95.020, which mandated a sentence of life
without parole (LWOP) pursuant to RCW 10.95.030. 197 Wn.2d at 306, 308.
Timeliness of the PRP was a threshold issue. Id. at 309-11. The Monschke petitioners
argued that the aggravated murder sentencing statute was unconstitutional as applied,
satisfying the constitutionality exemption in RCW 10.73.100(2). Id. RCW 10.73.100(2)
provides that a PRP is exempt from the one-year time bar if it asserts that the statute the
defendant was convicted of violating was unconstitutional.
The lead opinion, signed by three other justices, reasoned that the aggravated
murder statute was unique from other sentencing provisions. Id. at 310. RCW
10.95.030(1) requires the State to charge and the jury to find the defendant “guilty” of the
same aggravated murder charge. The lead opinion therefore reasoned that a challenge to
the sentencing requirement of .030(1) was a challenge to the statute the petitioners were
“‘convicted of violating.’” Id.
The lead opinion then concluded that the 19- and 20-year-old petitioners were
entitled to resentencing under Miller. The opinion noted that state and federal
constitutional protections for juvenile defendants have become more protective in
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accordance with society’s evolving standards of decency and that legislative line-drawing
around age has historically been an arbitrary decision. Monschke, 197 Wn.2d at 307,
314-21. Most relevant to Davis’s claim, the opinion observed that no “meaningful”
developmental distinction exists in current neuroscience between 17- and 18-year-olds as
a class. Id. at 321-25. Thus, the lead opinion concluded that defendants under and over
the age of 18 are entitled to Miller’s constitutional protections of individualized
sentencing and consideration of youth as a mitigating factor. Id. at 326. The lead
opinion relied on Miller’s mandate that a sentence follow a certain process: consider an
offender’s youth before imposing a particular penalty. Id. at 327 (citing Miller, 567 U.S.
at 483). This process requires individualized sentencing. Id. Because RCW 10.95.030
precluded such sentencing, the lead opinion would hold the statute unconstitutional under
article I, section 14 as applied to the 19- and 20-year-old petitioners. Id. at 326, 329.
The dissenting opinion disagreed, first observing that the plain language of RCW
10.73.100(2) distinguishes convictions from sentences. Id. at 334-35 (Owens, J.,
dissenting). The dissent also disagreed that the 19- and 20-year-old petitioners were
equivalent to juveniles and entitled to Miller protections. Id. at 331-32. In the dissent’s
view, the lead opinion improperly elevated evolving neuroscience above legislative
enactments. Id. at 341. The dissent would have held that the Monschke petitioners were
not children but adults when they committed aggravated murder and therefore not entitled
to resentencing to consider their relative youthfulness. Id. at 341.
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The concurrence agreed with the lead opinion in result but diverged on the
reasoning underlying it. Regarding the timeliness of the petitioners, the concurrence
agreed with the dissent that RCW 10.73.100(2) applies to violations of substantive
criminal statutes found unconstitutional rather than sentencing statutes. Id. at 329
(González, C.J., concurring). Instead, the concurrence would have held the petitions
timely under State v. O’Dell, 183 Wn.2d 680, 358 P.3d 359 (2015). Monschke, 197
Wn.2d at 329 (citing RCW 10.73.100(6)).
Turning to Davis’s petition, we conclude that Monschke is not material. PRPs are
exempt from the one-year time bar under RCW 10.73.100(6) if they can identify a
significant change in the law that is material and that applies retroactively. In re Pers.
Restraint of Colbert, 186 Wn.2d 614, 619, 380 P.3d 504 (2016). Neither case law nor
statute requires these elements to be considered in a particular order. Light-Roth, 191
Wn.2d at 333.
Davis contends here that Monschke constitutes a significant and material change
that should be applied retroactively to his de facto LWOP sentence of 767 months. He
contends that the lead opinion in Monschke found no meaningful developmental
difference between the brains of defendants under the age of 18 and those over the age of
18. Davis, at age 21, claims he was entitled to argue youth as a mitigating factor at
sentencing based on what he believes is the holding of Monschke. We disagree.
First, Monschke’s procedural and substantive discussions concerned Washington’s
aggravated murder statute, RCW 10.95.030, which required LWOP sentences for
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defendants aged 18 and older. Davis, on the other hand, was convicted of violating
different statutes—RCW 9A.32.030(1), RCW 9A.32.050(1), and RCW 9A.28.020(1).
No provision required imposition of a life sentence. Second, RCW 10.95.030 precluded
sentencing courts from exercising any discretion to consider youth. This lack of
discretion was a key factor in the lead opinion’s analysis, which reasoned that RCW
10.95.030 was unconstitutional as applied. See Monschke, 197 Wn.2d at 325-26, 329. In
contrast, the court in Davis’s case had discretion to impose an exceptional sentence based
on various factors including youth. See Light-Roth, 191 Wn.2d at 336 (“RCW
9.94A.535(1)(e) has always provided the opportunity to raise youth for the purpose of
requesting an exceptional sentence downward, and mitigation based on youth is within
the trial court’s discretion.”); O’Dell, 183 Wn.2d at 698-99. Finally, the petitioners in
Monschke were 19- and 20-year-olds when they committed aggravated murder while
Davis was 21 when he committed the charged crimes.
In short, Davis was convicted under a different statute than at issue in Monschke,
the trial court sentenced him at the low end of the standard range, that court had
discretion to depart from the standard range based on youth (among other factors), and
Davis was outside the age range of the petitioners who received relief in Monschke. For
the same reasons, even assuming that Monschke is retroactive, it is of little use to Davis
because Davis was convicted of a different offense and outside the applicable age range
governed by Monschke.
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Furthermore, Davis’s argument is anchored on the neurological observations in
Monschke, but it overlooks their context. As previously noted, the lead opinion held that
the PRPs at issue were timely under RCW 10.73.100(2)’s constitutionality exception and
that the aggravated murder statute violated article I, section 14 of our state constitution.
Monschke, 197 Wn.2d at 310, 329. The concurrence agreed that the petitioners should
receive a new sentence under O’Dell rather than under .100(2). Id. at 329. Five justices
agreed that the aggravated murder statute was unconstitutional and essentially provided
“as applied” relief to the petitioners. The lead opinion’s neuroscientific discussion is tied
to its analysis of the aggravated murder statute and its holding and reasoning are limited
to the statute at issue (RCW 10.95.030) as applied to the petitioners (aged 18-20 years
old). The case is not material to Davis. Accordingly, Davis does not satisfy the
exception to the time bar under RCW 10.73.100(6).
2. Scientific Evidence of Late-Adolescent Brain Development Does Not Qualify as Newly Discovered Evidence under RCW 10.73.100(1)
RCW 10.73.100(1) provides that PRPs are exempt from the one-year time bar if
based on “[n]ewly discovered evidence, if the defendant acted with reasonable diligence
in discovering the evidence and filing the petition or motion.” Davis contends his PRP
meets this exemption because recent neurological studies, such as those discussed in the
declaration of Davis’s expert, Dr. Laurence Steinberg, were unavailable when he was
sentenced and show that late-adolescent brains are indistinguishable from those of
juveniles regarding impulsive judgment, peer influence, and ability to change. The State
offers two arguments in response. First, the newly discovered evidence exception applies
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only to evidence that would change the result of a petitioner’s trial, not their sentence.
Second, the proffered adolescent brain development science has been available since the
early 2000s.
This issue is shared with Davis’s companion case, In re Personal Restraint of
Kennedy, No. 99748-9 (Wash. July 28, 2022).
3. Assuming Neurological Studies Constitute Newly Discovered Evidence, Davis Fails To Show the Evidence Was Material to His Sentence
Even assuming, as in Kennedy, that the newly discovered evidence test applies to
sentencing proceedings, Davis must show that the evidence was material to his sentence.
See State v. Williams, 96 Wn.2d 215, 223, 634 P.2d 868 (1981). In his PRP, Davis
provides a declaration from Dr. Steinberg (discussed in detail below), stating that
developmental studies of late-aged adolescents have only recently become available and
that this evidence puts Davis’s conduct in “a [n]ew [l]ight.” PRP at 9 (Wash. Ct. App.
No. 79937-1-I (2019)) (quoting Steinberg declaration). But neither Davis nor his expert
connects this new neuroscience to Davis’s behavior. See Light-Roth, 191 Wn.2d at 336
(defendants may argue youth as a mitigating factor and must show that youthfulness
relates to the commission of the crime); State v. Delbosque, 195 Wn.2d 106, 121, 456
P.3d 806 (2020) (citing State v. Ramos, 187 Wn.2d 420, 387 P.3d 650 (2017)
(recognizing that youth as mitigating evidence is considered based on the facts of the
case)). Davis claims only that the new science shows late-aged adolescents have
impulsive judgment and are susceptible to peer pressure, as are juveniles. Yet Davis
himself admits “[t]hat is not to say that Davis was pressured or under duress.” Pet’r’s
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Suppl. Br. at 18. Davis does not show that recent developmental science is material to
his sentence because he fails to show that his behavior reflected peer pressure or total
lack of impulse control. See Suppl. Br. of Resp’t at 8 (noting Davis and his associates
planned to seek retribution and sought out Spearman, attacking him in the middle of
traffic).
4. Davis Fails To Show Prejudice
Even accepting Davis’s sentencing evidence that late-adolescent brains are
equivalent to juvenile brains in executive functions, he does not show that the evidence
would have changed his sentence.
A personal restraint petitioner is required to establish actual prejudice arising from
a constitutional error or a nonconstitutional error that constitutes a fundamental defect
resulting in a complete miscarriage of justice. In re Pers. Restraint of Davis, 152 Wn.2d
647, 671-72, 101 P.3d 1 (2004). To show actual and substantial prejudice, a petitioner
must show that the outcome would more likely than not have been different had the
alleged error not occurred. In re Pers. Restraint of Hagler, 97 Wn.2d 818, 825, 650 P.2d
1103 (1982). Davis does not make this showing.
Davis contends first that he received a de facto life sentence of 767 months that is
unconstitutional under State v. Haag, 198 Wn.2d 309, 329, 495 P.3d 241 (2021). Davis
argues that Haag requires a sentencing court to receive and consider mitigation evidence
of youth and that the same analysis applies to late-aged adolescents sentenced to life.
Haag concerned an undisputed juvenile defendant aged 17, who was resentenced under
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Washington’s Miller-fix statute and resentenced to a term of 46 years to life, despite the
sentencer finding Haag was not irretrievably depraved or corrupt. 198 Wn.2d at 313.
Unlike Haag, Davis was an adult (21 years old) at the time he committed murder and
attempted murder and had not been resentenced. Davis states that when he was originally
sentenced, the judge did not find that he was irretrievably corrupt when such a finding is
required under Haag, therefore prejudicing him. See Pet’r’s Suppl. Br. at 13. But,
because this court has not held that 21-year-olds are equivalent to juveniles for Miller
sentencing protections, no such finding was required.
Davis next asserts that he was prejudiced based on the analysis in In re Personal
Restraint of Ali, 196 Wn.2d 220, 474 P.3d 507 (2020), cert. denied, 141 S. Ct. 1754
(2021), and In re Personal Restraint of Domingo-Cornelio, 196 Wn.2d 255, 474 P.3d 524
(2020), cert. denied, 141 S. Ct. 1753 (2021). In Ali, this court reversed and remanded the
petitioner’s case because no evidence was presented to suggest the sentencing court
considered mitigating circumstances based on youth, and the sentencing court then
imposed a standard sentence believing it lacked discretion to impose less. 196 Wn.2d at
243-45; see also Domingo-Cornelio, 196 Wn.2d at 268. Similarly, in Davis’s view, a
petitioner is harmed when a sentencing court fails to consider mitigating qualities of late-
aged adolescents because their developmental deficiency can reduce culpability. For the
same reasons as Haag, Ali and Domingo-Cornelio do not apply in this case.
Last, Davis argues that only studies conducted after his sentencing in 2010 show
that juveniles and late-aged adolescents share “‘mitigating qualities of youth.’” Pet’r’s
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Suppl. Br. at 17-18. Davis relies on the declaration by Dr. Steinberg, who considered
“whether individuals between 18 and 21 also share the attributes of adolescents under 18
that trigger the constitutional protections the Supreme Court has already recognized for
mid-adolescents.” PRP, Decl. of Laurence Steinberg, at 3 (Wash. Ct. App. No. 79937-1-I
(2019)). Dr. Steinberg states that over the last 20 years, considerable scientific research
establishes that “adolescents are more impulsive, prone to engage in risky and reckless
behavior, motivated more by reward than punishment, and less oriented to the future and
more to the present” than adults. Id. Ultimately, Dr. Steinberg concludes “there is no
scientific evidence to suggest a meaningful psychological or neurobiological distinction
that can be drawn between individuals who are nearly 18 years old and those who are
between 18 and 21.” Id. at 14. In Dr. Steinberg’s view, mandatory LWOP sentences for
defendants should be prohibited in cases involving defendants under the age of 21.
But Davis fails to show his own expert witness’s testimony would have benefited
him at sentencing. Dr. Steinberg’s declaration considers developmental research between
18- to 21-year-olds. Because Davis was 21 when he committed the charged crimes, he is
outside the age range discussed in Dr. Steinberg’s declaration. See id. (noting no
scientific distinction can be drawn between those nearly 18 years old and those “who are
between 18 and 21.” (emphasis added)). 4
4 Research on whether and how late-adolescent brains (over the age of 21) reflect those of juveniles exhibiting the hallmarks of immaturity is not yet definitive. This court considered similarly indefinite science in State v. Fraser, 199 Wn.2d 465, 509 P.3d 282 (2022), concerning a per se cannabis limit for driving under the influence. The scientific community agrees this limit cannot be precisely identified. Id. at 478 (noting that unlike blood alcohol content, there is no one level at which every person is impaired when consuming cannabis). We noted that
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Further, Davis does not show that research on poor impulse control in late-aged
adolescents was not available until recently. In O’Dell, this court cited numerous studies
addressing neurodevelopment in late-aged adolescents published as early as 2004. 183
Wn.2d at 692 n.5 (quoting Jay N. Giedd, Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the
Adolescent Brain, 1021 ANN. N.Y. ACAD. SCI. 77 (2004) (“[T]he dorsal lateral prefrontal
cortex, important for controlling impulses, is among the latest brain regions to mature
without reaching adult dimensions until the early 20s.” (emphasis added))). Davis
attempts to overcome such studies by claiming that while structural brain distinctions
were recognized before his 2010 sentencing, he could not argue his maturing brain and
peer pressure reduced his culpability. Though the consequence of structural differences
between late-adolescent and adult brains is certainly a refinement in the science, Davis
could have argued his late-developing impulse control affected his culpability as early as
2004.
Because Davis was 21 when he committed the charged crimes, he was considered
an adult for sentencing. Nevertheless, this court explained that sentencing courts have
always had the discretion to consider a defendant’s youthfulness. Light-Roth, 191 Wn.2d
at 336-38. Davis does not present any evidence of the impact of youth on his conduct or
of the court failing to take his youthfulness into consideration, nor does he provide any
scientific precision is not required: lawmakers may constitutionally delineate between sobriety and impairment even when science does not provide a precise dividing line as long as the decision is rationally related to a government interest. Id. at 479-80. As in Fraser, given the state of the science, we defer to the legislature on the dividing line between late-adolescent and adult brains.
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link between the science of brain development and his own behavior or culpability in his
PRP. Accordingly, Davis does not show that the outcome of his sentence would have
changed had he been able to present newly discovered developmental research on late-
aged adolescents. Hagler, 97 Wn.2d at 825 (even showing that an error created a
possibility of prejudice is insufficient to merit collateral relief).
CONCLUSION
Davis does not meet any of the claimed exceptions to RCW 10.73.090’s one-year
time bar. He does not show that Monschke constitutes a significant, retroactive, and
material change in the law. RCW 10.73.100(6). Davis also fails to show that RCW
10.73.100(1)’s newly discovered evidence exemption applies, and, even assuming it
does, he fails to show that recent developmental evidence on late-aged adolescents
constitutes such newly discovered evidence or that his sentence would have changed had
he been able to present it. Davis’s PRP is untimely. Therefore, we affirm the Court of
Appeals’ order dismissing Davis’s petition.
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WE CONCUR:
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YU, J. (concurring) — I agree with the majority that In re Personal
Restraint of Monschke 1 is not “material” to Antoine Davis’s sentence as required
by RCW 10.73.100(6), and the neurological studies Davis points to are not
“[n]ewly discovered evidence” within the meaning of RCW 10.73.100(1).
Therefore, I join Parts 1 through 3 of the majority’s analysis, as well as its
determination that Davis’s personal restraint petition must be dismissed as
untimely. However, I cannot join Part 4 of the majority’s analysis, which consists
of dicta unnecessary to the resolution of this case. I therefore respectfully concur.
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1 197 Wn.2d 305, 482 P.3d 276 (2021) (plurality opinion).