# State v. Hansen

> Washington Supreme Court · November 18, 1993 · 122 Wash. 2d 712

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9531595

## Case

- **Full name:** The State of Washington, Respondent, v. Michael Ross Hansen, Petitioner
- **Court:** Washington Supreme Court
- **Decided:** November 18, 1993
- **Citations:** 122 Wash. 2d 712; 862 P.2d 117; 1993 Wash. LEXIS 371
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Andersen
- **Judges:** Guy, Andersen, Utter
- **Cited by:** 67 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a perpetrator who communicated to his attorney a threat to “blow away” a judge was guilty of violating the “Intimidating a Judge” statute, notwithstanding the perpetrator’s belief that the judge would never learn of his threat, because the “Intimidating a Judge” s…
- affirming conviction for intimidating judge where the defendant told attorney he was attempting to retain that he was going to “ ‘get a gun and blow them all away, the prosecutor, the judge and the public defender’”

## Opinion text

Andersen, C.J.
(concurring in part, dissenting in part) — I concur in part I of the dissenting opinion. However, like the Court of Appeals, I conclude that the evidence admitted at trial was sufficient for the trier of fact to determine, as it *723 did, that the defendant intended or knew his threat would be communicated to Judge Dixon; for this reason, I concur with the majority's affirmance of the conviction.

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