Defendant’s Trial Brief (State of Washington v. William Talbott)

1) Affidavit of Probable Cause 2) State’s Trial Memorandum and Motions in Limine 3) Defense’s Motion to Sever Offenses 4) Defendant’s Trial Brief 5) Defendant’s Supplement Motions in Limine 6) Motion for New Trial...

Defense’s motion for a new trial in a Washington double homicide case that occurred in 1987. The defense cites prosecutorial misconduct and evidentiary insufficiency in support of being granted a new trial...

Defense’s supplemental motions in limine in a Washington double homicide case that occurred in 1987. The defense requests evidentiary rulings on items of evidence including photographs, certain testimony, and exclusion of “genetic genealogy evidence.”...

Prosecution’s trial memorandum detailing the anticipated evidence and course of the investigation in a Washington double homicide case that occurred in 1987. This included the steps taken during the Forensic Genetic Genealogy investigation leading to the defendant. The motion in limine focused on the admissibility of the defense’s efforts to...

Defense’s motion to sever offenses in a Washington double homicide case that occurred in 1987. The defense argues that the two homicides in question should be charged separately based upon differences in proof for each murder including the date, time, and location of each incident...

Prosecution’s charging affidavit detailing the case against the defendant in a Washington double homicide case that occurred in 1987.   Included in the affidavit was a description of the surreptitious collection of the defendant’s DNA once he was identified as a likely suspect from the results of the family tree build-out...