# In re the Detention of Turay

> Washington Supreme Court · October 21, 1999 · 139 Wash. 2d 379

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4711811

## Case

- **Full name:** In the Matter of the Detention of Richard Garrett Turay
- **Court:** Washington Supreme Court
- **Decided:** October 21, 1999
- **Citations:** 139 Wash. 2d 379; 986 P.2d 790
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Madsen
- **Judges:** Alexander, Madsen, Sanders
- **Cited by:** 203 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

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- holding ER 404(b) does not bar admission of testimony about prior bad acts because the bad acts are being used to demonstrate a person suffers from a mental abnormality and not that the defendant committed a specific "bad act."

## Opinion text

Madsen, J.
(concurring in the dissent) — For the reasons stated in my concurrence in the dissent in In re Detention of Campbell, 139 Wn.2d 341 , 986 P.2d 771 (1999), I also dissent from the majority in this case.

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