The State of Washington v. Allen Eugene Gregory

Summary

The court reversed Gregory's rape convictions because the trial court abused its discretion by refusing to review the victim's pending dependency files in camera, and the undisclosed impeachment evidence was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. It affirmed the aggravated first degree murder conviction, rejecting Gregory's challenges to the jury selection, courtroom regulation, sufficiency of the evidence, counsel-related questioning, DNA evidence, and other evidentiary rulings. It reversed the death sentence because prosecutorial misconduct occurred during the penalty-phase closing argument and remanded for resentencing. J.M. Johnson, dissenting, would have upheld both the rape conviction and death sentence, while Sanders, concurring in the result, would have found the consent instruction unconstitutional and the prostitution evidence admissible.