State of Washington v. Curtis Charles Anderson ( 2018 )


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  •                                                                         FILED
    OCTOBER 25, 2018
    In the Office of the Clerk of Court
    WA State Court of Appeals, Division III
    IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
    DIVISION THREE
    STATE OF WASHINGTON,                          )
    )         No. 35410-5-III
    Respondent,              )
    )
    v.                                     )
    )
    CURTIS C. ANDERSON,                           )         UNPUBLISHED OPINION
    )
    Appellant.               )
    SIDDOWAY, J. — Curtis Anderson appeals his conviction of one count of violation
    of a no-contact order, committed against a family or household member. The State
    concedes that evidence at a CrR 3.5 hearing was insufficient to support the trial court’s
    finding that incriminating statements Mr. Anderson made to police while in custody were
    voluntarily and knowingly made. Although the State argues that the error was harmless,
    we disagree and hold that a new trial is required. While that issue is dispositive, we
    address one other of Mr. Anderson’s assignments of error, alleged prosecutorial
    misconduct, that we fear might otherwise be repeated on retrial.
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    State v. Anderson
    FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
    Early one morning in February 2017, Robert Delp, who lived at 1616 North Cedar
    Street in Spokane, called the county’s Crime Check hotline after seeing a man looking
    into parked cars on the street. Mr. Delp later testified that he confronted the man, who
    pulled out a “hunting knife” and then walked north on Cedar Street. Report of
    Proceedings (RP) at 93. He described the man as wearing blue jeans, a dark jacket, and a
    black baseball cap with an orange symbol on it. The man was wearing a bandana across
    his face so, as Mr. Delp later testified, he could not see his face. Officer Trevor Winters
    responded to Mr. Delp’s call at approximately 7:00 a.m. but was unable to locate anyone
    in the vicinity who met Mr. Delp’s description.
    Around 8:30 the same morning, police received another call reporting a person
    rummaging through a car a couple of blocks from Mr. Delp’s home. Officer Winters
    returned to the area and this time sighted Curtis Anderson on Walnut Street, just south of
    an alleyway between Augusta and Nora Streets. Mr. Anderson was wearing clothing
    consistent with Mr. Delp’s description. Officer Winters asked to speak with Mr.
    Anderson and then, when he saw that he had a knife in a sheath on his belt, asked him to
    sit on a nearby porch, knowing that other officers were responding. Mr. Anderson was
    compliant.
    Mr. Anderson gave his name and date of birth when asked, and Officer Winters
    used the information to do a record and warrant check. He learned that a court order
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    prohibited Mr. Anderson from being within two blocks of the home of Mr. Anderson’s
    mother, Kary Curtis, who lived at 1322 West Spofford Avenue. Based on the officer’s
    conclusion that he and Mr. Anderson were then “[a]pproximately two blocks” from Ms.
    Curtis’s home and that Mr. Anderson would have been even closer to her home if he was
    the person sighted by Mr. Delp, he questioned Mr. Anderson about the possible no-
    contact violation. RP at 110. According to Officer Winters, Mr. Anderson denied being
    at his mother’s home the night before or that day, but when asked if he had been involved
    in an altercation with someone at 1616 North Cedar, he admitted he had exchanged
    words with someone while walking by that location.
    Coincidentally, as Officer Winters spoke with Mr. Anderson, David Curtis, Kary
    Curtis’s husband, called police to report a possible burglary the night before at their
    Spofford Avenue home. Mr. Curtis had discovered an open gate and that a bathroom
    window on the ground floor was open and its screen was cut. A large overturned bucket
    was on the ground outside the window and footprints in the snow led to the bucket.
    Officer Nicholas Spolski responded to Mr. Curtis’s call. He notified Officer Winters of
    what he learned from Mr. Curtis.
    The officers decided to take Mr. Anderson to Mr. Delp’s home for a field showup.
    As Mr. Delp described the showup at trial, he stood on his porch with Officer Winters
    while Officer Spolski had Mr. Anderson, who was handcuffed, step out of a patrol car
    located about a half a block away. Mr. Delp testified that he told officers he could not
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    make a facial identification, but that Mr. Anderson’s clothes and backpack matched those
    of the man he had seen. By the time Mr. Anderson was presented to Mr. Delp, Officer
    Winters had relieved Mr. Anderson of his knife and he was not wearing the sheath, so
    Mr. Delp made no identification of those items. The knife taken from Mr. Anderson was
    not admitted into evidence or identified at trial.
    The officers did not have Mr. Anderson speak, so Mr. Delp made no voice
    identification. When cross-examined at trial, Mr. Delp acknowledged that it was just
    beginning to get light when he had the encounter with the suspected vehicle prowler, that
    the encounter lasted about 10 seconds, and that he could not describe the suspect’s height,
    weight, or hair color.
    Following the showup, Officer Spolski told Mr. Anderson that his shoe prints
    matched those seen in the snow at the Curtis home and that Mr. Delp placed him in the
    area. Officer Spolski claims that in response, Mr. Anderson told the officer that he “had
    gone to his mom’s house because he was cold and hungry.” RP at 138.
    Mr. Anderson was charged with one count of felony violation of a no-contact
    order, domestic violence. The prohibition language from the order, which was admitted
    as an exhibit at trial, stated:
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    Ex. 1.
    The trial court conducted a CrR 3.5 hearing on the admissibility of Mr.
    Anderson’s statements to police on the first day of trial. Officer Winters was called by
    the State and provided the following testimony about advising Mr. Anderson of his rights
    after stopping him on Walnut Street:
    A. He was detained at that time. He was not placed under arrest.
    Q. Did you speak to him?
    A. Yes, I did.
    Q. Did he appear to want to speak to you?
    A. I advised him of his Miranda[1] rights, which he stated he understood.
    And then he waived his rights and was willing to talk to me.
    Q. So you did advise him of his rights at that time?
    A. Sorry. Prior to advising him of his rights, I asked him what he was
    doing. He said he was checking on that vehicle. He said he believed it
    was abandoned and was just making sure no one else had broken into it.
    RP at 40.
    During cross-examination, defense counsel presented and Officer Winters
    1
    Miranda v. Arizona, 
    384 U.S. 436
    , 
    86 S. Ct. 1602
    , 
    16 L. Ed. 2d 694
     (1966).
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    identified a department issued card printed with a warning of constitutional rights. The
    card was not offered or admitted into evidence. Officer Winters reiterated that he
    “personally read [Mr. Anderson] his rights” but then stated, “I do not recall if I used a
    card or if I said the rights from memory.” RP at 58. He acknowledged that Mr.
    Anderson had not signed a constitutional rights card and had not been presented with one.
    The officer later testified that the cards might not even have been printed and available at
    the time of Mr. Anderson’s detention, adding, “I gave him a verbal admonishment.”
    RP at 63.
    Mr. Anderson testified at the hearing that the officer who stopped him was not
    Officer Winters. He denied that any officer advised him of his Miranda rights and denied
    that he was within two blocks of his mother’s home as charged.
    The trial court suppressed only the statements made by Mr. Anderson before the
    point at which Officer Winters claims to have read or recited Miranda warnings. The
    court found that the officer provided Miranda warnings early in the men’s encounter. It
    ruled all of Mr. Anderson’s post-Miranda statements admissible, stating, in part:
    The officer testified that he read those—he recited those rights or read
    them. He wasn’t certain that he recited them from memory, and there was
    no questioning about that. There was no question that this court is aware of
    that those rights were incorrectly or improperly provided.
    RP at 74.
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    At trial, the defense focused on weaknesses in Mr. Delp’s identification of Mr.
    Anderson and whether—if Mr. Anderson was not the man seen by Mr. Delp—the State
    had proved that Mr. Anderson was ever within two blocks of his mother’s home.
    Officer Winters testified that the location where he stopped Mr. Anderson was
    within two blocks of Ms. Curtis’s home. But Mr. Curtis testified that a person would
    have to travel three blocks to arrive at the location. Defense counsel questioned
    witnesses with a map that was referred to as “Defendant’s Exhibit No. 1,” but she never
    offered it in evidence.2 RP at 127.
    During closing argument, the prosecutor argued that Mr. Anderson knowingly
    violated the provisions of the no-contact order, relying on Mr. Delp’s identification of
    2
    We take judicial notice that had a map been admitted, it would have revealed the
    following locations of the relevant homes and detention:
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    Mr. Anderson as the suspected prowler, Officer Winters’s detention of Mr. Anderson on
    Walnut Street, Mr. Anderson’s admission to Officer Spolski that he went to his mother’s
    home, and the footprints in the snow in the Curtises’ yard. The prosecutor pointed jurors
    to an instruction that knowingly performing an act is established if the person performs
    the act intentionally and told the jury, “whatever we do, we do intentionally.” RP at 164.
    He offered as an example the jurors’ “intentional” appearance in response to their jury
    summonses. The defense did not object.
    The jury found Mr. Anderson guilty of the sole count of felony violation of a no-
    contact order and that the crime was committed against a family or household member.
    The trial court sentenced Mr. Anderson to 60 months’ confinement and at the request of
    Mr. Anderson’s mother, modified the no-contact order to permit them to communicate.
    Mr. Anderson appeals.
    ANALYSIS
    Mr. Anderson makes 10 assignments of error. Four relate to the trial court’s ruling
    that Mr. Anderson’s statements to police were admissible, including an assignment of
    error to the trial court’s failure to enter findings of fact and conclusions of law following
    the CrR 3.5 hearing. Because we conclude that a new trial is required in light of the
    nonharmless error in admitting Mr. Anderson’s statements, we address only (1) that
    issue, (2) the challenge to the no-contact order on constitutional vagueness grounds, and
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    (3) a contention of prosecutorial misconduct for conflating intentional action with
    knowing action that we fear might otherwise be repeated on retrial.
    We first address the vagueness challenge, then address our conclusion that the
    admission of Mr. Anderson’s statements to police was not harmless, and turn last to the
    confusion over the required element that the violation of a no-contact order be
    “knowing.”
    A vagueness challenge to the no-contact order was not preserved
    If Mr. Anderson’s vagueness challenge to the no-contact order was successful, we
    would direct the trial court to dismiss the charge against him, so we address that asserted
    error first. Mr. Anderson argues the order is unconstitutionally vague because the
    handwritten “2 blk” in the order is illegible and “two blocks” is not a sufficiently definite
    description of the area he was prohibited from entering. Clerk’s Papers (CP) at 3.
    RAP 2.5(a) states the general rule that appellate courts will not entertain issues not
    raised in the trial court. State v. Guzman Nunez, 
    160 Wn. App. 150
    , 157, 
    248 P.3d 103
    (2011) (citing State v. Scott, 
    110 Wn.2d 682
    , 685, 
    757 P.2d 492
     (1988), aff’d, 
    174 Wn.2d 707
    , 
    285 P.3d 21
     (2012)). The reason for this rule is to afford the trial court an
    opportunity to correct errors as they are raised, thereby preserving the use of judicial
    resources. Scott, 
    110 Wn.2d at 685
    . Mr. Anderson did not testify at trial. His lawyer did
    not challenge the no-contact order as unconstitutionally vague.
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    RAP 2.5(a)(3) permits a party to raise an unpreserved claim of “manifest error
    affecting a constitutional right.” To establish manifest constitutional error, a criminal
    defendant must identify a constitutional error and make a showing that the error
    negatively affected his rights at trial. State v. Kirkman, 
    159 Wn.2d 918
    , 926-27, 
    155 P.3d 125
     (2007). “It is this showing of actual prejudice that makes the error ‘manifest,’
    allowing appellate review.” 
    Id.
     at 927 (citing State v. McFarland, 
    127 Wn.2d 322
    , 333,
    
    899 P.2d 1251
     (1995)). “If the facts necessary to adjudicate the claimed error are not in
    the record on appeal, no actual prejudice is shown and the error is not manifest.”
    McFarland, 
    127 Wn.2d at 333
    .
    The due process vagueness doctrine under the Fourteenth Amendment to the
    United States Constitution and article I, section 3 of the state constitution requires that
    citizens have fair warning of proscribed conduct. State v. Bahl, 
    164 Wn.2d 739
    , 752, 
    193 P.3d 678
     (2008). The same vagueness doctrine that applies to statutes applies to
    protection or no-contact orders whose violation could result in criminal penalties. E.g.,
    City of Seattle v. May, 
    171 Wn.2d 847
    , 855-56, 
    256 P.3d 1161
     (2011). Such an order is
    unconstitutionally vague if it is either insufficiently definite such that ordinary people
    cannot understand what conduct is proscribed, or if it does not provide ascertainable
    standards of guilt to protect against arbitrary enforcement. Bahl, 
    164 Wn.2d at 752-53
    .
    Mr. Anderson relies on the former infirmity: he argues that his no-contact order was
    unconstitutionally indefinite.
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    In a case addressing an allegedly vague statute, the United States Supreme Court
    has held that the degree of vagueness that the Constitution tolerates, as well as the
    relative importance of fair notice and fair enforcement, depends in part on the nature of
    the enactment. Vill. of Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc., 
    455 U.S. 489
    ,
    498-99, 
    102 S. Ct. 1186
    , 
    71 L. Ed. 2d 362
     (1982). We find that the distinctions identified
    in Hoffman Estates also have relevance where a court order imposed against a particular
    defendant is alleged to be unconstitutionally vague. The Court explained that economic
    regulations are subject to a less strict vagueness test because their subject matter is often
    more narrow and a regulated enterprise may have the ability to clarify the meaning of the
    regulation by its own inquiry.3 Here, the no-contact order had a very narrow subject
    matter and was completed in the presence of Mr. Anderson, who signed it. The
    handwritten two block prohibited zone might even have been requested by Mr. Anderson
    or his lawyer as easier to comply with than the default prohibited zone of 1,000 feet
    provided by the standard no-contact order form. See Ex. 1. The meaning of the two
    3
    This court has likewise held that when a court order applicable to a particular
    defendant is challenged as unconstitutionally vague, the fact that the defendant actually
    understands what is prohibited is a sufficient response to the challenge. In State v.
    Weatherwax, for instance, this court cited United States v. Soltero, 
    510 F.3d 858
     (9th Cir.
    2007), for the proposition that a condition forbidding a defendant from wearing or
    possessing items connoting affiliation with a particular gang was not insufficiently
    definite for that defendant, who was an admitted member of the gang and presumably
    familiar with its paraphernalia. Weatherwax, 
    193 Wn. App. 667
    , 678, 
    376 P.3d 1150
    (2016), rev’d on other grounds, 
    188 Wn.2d 139
    , 
    392 P.3d 1054
     (2017).
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    block zone might well have been discussed at the hearing at which the no-contact order
    was entered.
    Hoffman Estates also observes that the Court “has recognized that a scienter
    requirement may mitigate a law’s vagueness, especially with respect to the adequacy of
    notice to the complainant that his conduct is proscribed.” 
    455 U.S. at 499
    . As observed
    in Screws v. United States, “The requirement that the act must be willful or purposeful
    may not render certain, for all purposes, a statutory definition of the crime which is in
    some respects uncertain. But it does relieve the statute of the objection that it punishes
    without warning an offense of which the accused was unaware.” 
    325 U.S. 91
    , 102, 
    65 S. Ct. 1031
    , 
    89 L. Ed. 1495
     (1945) (plurality opinion) (emphasis added). In Mr. Anderson’s
    case, the State would not meet its burden of proving the essential element of a “knowing
    violation” without satisfying jurors beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Anderson knew
    what the no-contact order prohibited.
    Mr. Anderson’s first vagueness challenge to the no-contact order—that the
    handwritten “2 blk” is illegible—does not qualify as manifest constitutional error because
    the trial court heard Mr. Anderson’s testimony at the CrR 3.5 hearing that he knew the
    no-contact order prohibited him from coming within two blocks of his mother’s home.
    His second objection to the order—that “two blocks” is not a sufficiently definite
    description of the prohibited area—fails because facts necessary to adjudicate the claimed
    error are not in the record on appeal. At trial, Mr. Anderson did not challenge the no-
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    contact order as unconstitutionally vague. He argued, principally, that it described the
    number of linear blocks that someone traveling on public streets or walkways must travel,
    which he contended was three.4 As defense counsel argued in closing, “what we heard is
    that, to get from the Spofford address, you had to go up one block to the intersection of
    Augusta, cross the street, go up another block to get to the intersection of Nora and
    Cedar, and then head one block west to get to the intersection of Walnut and Nora.”
    RP at 171.
    The no-contact order was in evidence but no evidence was presented of what
    transpired at the hearing at which the order was entered, which Mr. Anderson attended.
    Because facts necessary to determine what Mr. Anderson actually understood about the
    two block zone are not in the record, no actual prejudice is shown and the error is not
    manifest.
    Admitting Mr. Anderson’s incriminating admissions was not harmless error
    The State concedes that Mr. Anderson’s statements were admitted in violation of
    his constitutional rights. We are not required to accept a concession we determine is
    4
    The field of mathematics has names for describing this method for measuring
    distance. See, e.g., “Taxicab geometry,” WIKIPEDIA, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
    /Taxicab_geometry (last visited on Oct. 24, 2018). Notably, among the names for this
    type of distance measurement are the “taxicab metric,” “city block distance,” or
    “Manhattan distance.” 
    Id.
     “City block distance” is distinguished from Euclidean
    geometry, which appears to have been Officer Winters’s basis for estimating that the
    location where he stopped Mr. Anderson was within two spatial blocks of Ms. Curtis’s
    home.
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    erroneous, however. State v. Nysta, 
    168 Wn. App. 30
    , 44, 
    275 P.3d 1162
     (2012).
    Miranda warnings are designed to protect a defendant’s right not to make
    incriminating statements while in the potentially coercive environment of custodial police
    interrogation. State v. Harris, 
    106 Wn.2d 784
    , 789, 
    725 P.2d 975
     (1986), cert. denied,
    
    480 U.S. 940
    , 
    107 S. Ct. 1592
    , 
    94 L. Ed. 2d 781
     (1987). Unless a defendant has been
    given Miranda warnings, his statements during police interrogation are presumed to be
    involuntary. State v. Sargent, 
    111 Wn.2d 641
    , 647-48, 
    762 P.2d 1127
     (1988). Unwarned
    statements must therefore be excluded from evidence under Miranda. Oregon v. Elstad,
    
    470 U.S. 298
    , 307, 
    105 S. Ct. 1285
    , 
    84 L. Ed. 2d 222
     (1985). We review the adequacy of
    Miranda warnings de novo. State v. Hopkins, 
    134 Wn. App. 780
    , 785, 
    142 P.3d 1104
    (2006).
    Mr. Anderson was not presented with a written Miranda warning admitted into
    evidence, so the adequacy of the warnings depends on what Officer Winters said to Mr.
    Anderson. If the officer read from a card, the record does not reveal what the card said.
    The officer’s testimony suggests it was more likely he recited the rights from memory,
    but he was never asked to repeat his memorized recital at trial. In short, no evidence was
    presented from which to determine the adequacy of any warnings that were given. We
    therefore accept the State’s concession that it was error for the trial court to admit Mr.
    Anderson’s statements to police.
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    The State argues that the error was harmless. Admission of an involuntary
    confession obtained in violation of Miranda is subject to treatment as harmless error.
    State v. Reuben, 
    62 Wn. App. 620
    , 626-27, 
    814 P.2d 1177
     (1991) (citing Arizona v.
    Fulminante, 
    499 U.S. 279
    , 292 & n.6, 
    111 S. Ct. 1246
    , 
    113 L. Ed. 2d 302
    , reh’g denied,
    
    500 U.S. 938
    , 
    111 S. Ct. 2067
    , 
    114 L. Ed. 2d 472
     (1991)). To find an error affecting a
    constitutional right harmless, we must find it harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.
    Fulminante, 
    499 U.S. at 295
    ; State v. Guloy, 
    104 Wn.2d 412
    , 425, 
    705 P.2d 1182
     (1985),
    cert. denied, 
    475 U.S. 1020
    , 
    106 S. Ct. 1208
    , 
    89 L. Ed. 2d 321
     (1986).
    Mr. Anderson’s alleged statements to police that he went to his mother’s house
    because he was cold and hungry and was involved in an exchange with a person at 1616
    North Cedar were the only clearly sufficient evidence of a violation of the no-contact
    order. Had those statements been excluded (as they should have been), the next strongest
    evidence that he violated the no-contact order was Mr. Delp’s identification.
    Mr. Delp’s testimony did not establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. He
    “couldn’t be for sure” that Mr. Anderson was the prowler he confronted, because the
    prowler had a hat and bandana obscuring his features. RP at 94. Mr. Delp identified Mr.
    Anderson by his clothing, but the clothing he described—blue jeans, a dark jacket, a
    black baseball cap with an orange insignia, and a backpack—was not unusual male attire
    for a winter morning. It would not be surprising to have several or even more individuals
    in similar attire in an urban location on a given day. Mr. Delp also acknowledged that he
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    viewed the suspected prowler for only 10 seconds in early morning light, and that during
    the showup, Mr. Anderson was presented a half block away as Mr. Delp stood on his
    porch. He did not identify Mr. Anderson’s knife.
    Officer Winters’s testimony that he located Mr. Anderson within the area
    prohibited by the no-contact order also fell short of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
    Mr. Anderson’s presence in the general vicinity of his mother’s home was not itself
    suspicious, since the defense presented evidence that Mr. Anderson grew up in the
    neighborhood, where his mother had lived for 30 years. It presented evidence that he had
    friends in the neighborhood. It was unclear that the location where Officer Winters
    stopped Mr. Anderson was within two blocks of the Curtis home and, given Mr.
    Anderson’s possible understanding of “two blocks” as measured not by trespassing, but
    by traveling on sidewalks or streets, it was even less clear that he was “knowingly”
    within two blocks of his mother’s home.
    Least probative was the limited extent to which Officer Spolski was able to match
    Mr. Anderson’s shoes to footprints in the snow at the Curtis home. All the officer was
    able to do was compare the size of Mr. Anderson’s shoe with photographs of the
    footprints taken by another officer. He did not testify that Mr. Anderson wore an unusual
    size shoe. No shoe tread was visible in the crusty snow. And defense counsel obtained
    the officer’s concession that the Curtis home was located in what could be a high crime
    area.
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    Because the error was not harmless, retrial is required.5
    The State’s misleading argument that “whatever we do, we do intentionally”
    should not be repeated on retrial
    Given our remand for retrial, it is unnecessary to address Mr. Anderson’s
    remaining assignments of error. We choose to address the prosecutor’s misleading
    argument about the relationship between intentional conduct and knowledge to avoid any
    recurrence of that error on retrial.
    The jury was instructed that it is an element of the crime of violating a no-contact
    order that the defendant “knowingly violated” the order. CP at 24 (Jury Instruction 9). It
    was given the following instruction on acting “knowingly”:
    A person knows or acts knowingly or with knowledge with respect
    to a fact, circumstance, or result when he or she is aware of that fact,
    circumstance, or result. It is not necessary that the person know that the
    fact, circumstance, or result is defined by law as being unlawful or an
    element of a crime.
    If a person has information that would lead a reasonable person in
    the same situation to believe that a fact exists, the jury is permitted but not
    required to find that he or she acted with knowledge of that fact.
    When acting knowingly as to a particular fact is required to establish
    an element of a crime, the element is also established if a person acts
    intentionally as to that fact.
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    The State suggests that the remedy should be remand for a new CrR 3.5 hearing.
    It provides no authority that its failure to present sufficient evidence of adequate Miranda
    warnings in the CrR 3.5 hearing should be remedied by giving it a second CrR 3.5
    hearing.
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    CP at 22 (Jury Instruction 7).
    The instruction on acting “knowingly” is based on a pattern instruction, WPIC
    10.02. 11 WASHINGTON PRACTICE JURY INSTRUCTIONS: CRIMINAL 10.02 at 222 (4th ed.
    2016) (WPIC). The comment to WPIC 10.02 highlights the very problem that was
    presented by the prosecutor’s argument in the trial below that “whatever we do, we do
    intentionally.” RP at 164.
    An earlier version of WPIC 10.02 stated, “Acting knowingly or with knowledge
    also is established if a person acts intentionally.” 11 WPIC 10.02 at 223. In State v.
    Goble, 
    131 Wn. App. 194
    , 
    126 P.3d 821
     (2005), this court found error in the earlier
    language because inferring knowledge from intent is valid only if required mental states
    are being evaluated with respect to the same fact. Following Goble, the last paragraph of
    the pattern instruction was revised to include the “knowledge as to a particular fact . . .
    intentionally as to that fact” qualifier.
    Goble held that one could not infer the essential element of a defendant’s
    knowledge that his assault victim was a law enforcement officer from the intentional
    nature of the assault. In this case, jurors could not infer the essential element of a
    “knowing” violation of the no-contact order from the fact that walking is an intentional
    act. They could only infer Mr. Anderson’s “knowing” violation of the no-contact order if
    he intentionally violated the no-contact order.
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    The prosecutor's argument that "whatever we do, we do intentionally" with the
    example of responding to a jury summons, was misleading and constituted prosecutorial
    misconduct. The erroneous argument should not be made in any retrial.
    We reverse the conviction and remand for proceedings consistent with this
    opinion. 6
    A majority of the panel has determined this opinion will not be printed in the
    Washington Appellate Reports, but it will be filed for public record pursuant to RCW
    2.06.040.
    WE CONCUR:
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    Mr. Anderson asks this court not to impose appellate costs on him if the State,
    6
    substantially prevails. It has not substantially prevailed.
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