NAME: DAVIS, Cecil Emile D.O.B.: Race: Black DATE OF CRIME: PLACE OF CRIME: FACTS: Cecil Emile Davis was convicted of one count of aggravated first degree murder for the suffocation/asphyxiation murder of 65-year-old Yoshiko Couch using a poisonous chemical (“Goof-Off”/Xylene), after burglarizing her home, robbing her, and raping her. The aggravating circumstance was that the murder was committed in the course of and or furtherance of the crimes of Burglary in the First Degree or Burglary in the Second Degree, Robbery in the First Degree or Robbery in the Second Degree, Rape in the First Degree and/or Rape in the Second Degree. State v. Davis, Pierce County Cause 97100432-4. DATE OF CONVICTION: February 6, 1998 SPECIAL SENTENCING: February 10-12, 1998 May 15, 2007 JUDGMENT AND Pierce County Superior Court SENTENCE: Cause No. 97-1-00432-4 February 23, 1998, May 18, 2007 TRIAL JUDGE: Honorable DEFENSE ATTYS: Ronald Ness John L. Cross Port Orchard, WA Lindstrom PROSECUTING ATTYS: Gerald Horne, Prosecuting Attorney John W. Ladenburg (Former Prosecuting Attorney) John M. Neeb, Deputy Prosecutor (Withdrew 01/26/00) John Hillman, Deputy Prosecutor (Former Deputy Prosecuting Attorney) Gerald T. Costello, Deputy Prosecutor Pierce County Prosecutor's Office 930 Tacoma Avenue South, Room 946 Tacoma, WA 98402-2171 APPELLANT'S ATTYS: (Direct Appeal, WSSC Cause #66537-1) Mandel Port Orchard, WA Port Orchard, WA (Direct Appeal, WSSC Cause #80209-2) Eric Broman (Withdrew 1/15/09) Eric Nielsen David Koch Seattle, WA Seattle, WA PETITIONER'S ATTYS: (Personal Restraint Petition, WSSC #70834-7) Gilbert Levy Catherine Ann Chaney
NAME: DAVIS, Cecil Emile D.O.B.: Race: Black DATE OF CRIME: PLACE OF CRIME: FACTS: Cecil Emile Davis was convicted of one count of aggravated first degree murder for the suffocation/asphyxiation murder of 65-year-old Yoshiko Couch using a poisonous chemical (“Goof-Off”/Xylene), after burglarizing her home, robbing her, and raping her. The aggravating circumstance was that the murder was committed in the course of and or furtherance of the crimes of Burglary in the First Degree or Burglary in the Second Degree, Robbery in the First Degree or Robbery in the Second Degree, Rape in the First Degree and/or Rape in the Second Degree. State v. Davis, Pierce County Cause 97100432-4. DATE OF CONVICTION: February 6, 1998 SPECIAL SENTENCING: February 10-12, 1998 May 15, 2007 JUDGMENT AND Pierce County Superior Court SENTENCE: Cause No. 97-1-00432-4 February 23, 1998, May 18, 2007 TRIAL JUDGE: Honorable DEFENSE ATTYS: Ronald Ness John L. Cross Port Orchard, WA Lindstrom PROSECUTING ATTYS: Gerald Horne, Prosecuting Attorney John W. Ladenburg (Former Prosecuting Attorney) John M. Neeb, Deputy Prosecutor (Withdrew 01/26/00) John Hillman, Deputy Prosecutor (Former Deputy Prosecuting Attorney) Gerald T. Costello, Deputy Prosecutor Pierce County Prosecutor's Office 930 Tacoma Avenue South, Room 946 Tacoma, WA 98402-2171 APPELLANT'S ATTYS: (Direct Appeal, WSSC Cause #66537-1) Mandel Port Orchard, WA Port Orchard, WA (Direct Appeal, WSSC Cause #80209-2) Eric Broman (Withdrew 1/15/09) Eric Nielsen David Koch Seattle, WA Seattle, WA PETITIONER'S ATTYS: (Personal Restraint Petition, WSSC #70834-7) Gilbert Levy Catherine Ann Chaney
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