Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 10 Criminal Procedure - Chapter 10.01 General Provisions

  • 10.01.030 Pleadings -- Forms abolished
    All the forms of pleading in criminal actions heretofore existing, are abolished; and hereafter, the forms of pleading, and the rules by which the sufficiency ...
  • 10.01.040 Statutes -- Repeal or amendment -- Saving clause presumed
    No offense committed and no penalty or forfeiture incurred previous to the time when any statutory provision shall be repealed, whether such repeal be express ...
  • 10.01.050 Convictions -- Necessary before punishment
    No person charged with any offense against the law shall be punished for such offense, unless he shall have been duly and legally convicted thereof ...
  • 10.01.060 Conviction -- Requisites -- Waiver of jury trial
    No person informed against or indicted for a crime shall be convicted thereof, unless by admitting the truth of the charge in his plea, by ...
  • 10.01.070 Corporations -- Amenable to criminal process -- How
    Whenever an indictment or information shall be filed in any superior court against a corporation charging it with the commission of a crime, a summons ...
  • 10.01.090 Corporations -- Judgment against
    If the corporation shall be found guilty and a fine imposed, it shall be entered and docketed by the clerk, or district or municipal court ...
  • 10.01.100 Corporations -- Penalties -- Fines in lieu of other punishments
    Every corporation guilty of a violation of any law of the state of Washington, where the prescribed penalty is, for any reason, incapable of execution ...
  • 10.01.113 Indigent party -- State payment of review costs
    See RCW 4.88.330. ...
  • 10.01.120 Pardons -- Reprieves -- Commutations
    Whenever a prisoner has been sentenced to death, the governor shall have power to commute such sentence to imprisonment for life at hard labor; and ...
  • 10.01.130 Witnesses' fees
    No fees shall be allowed to witnesses in criminal causes unless they shall have reported their attendance at the close of each day's session to ...
  • 10.01.140 Mileage allowance -- Jurors -- Witnesses
    No allowance of mileage shall be made to a juror or witness who has not verified his claim of mileage under oath before the clerk ...
  • 10.01.150 Charges arising from official acts of state officers or employees -- Defense by attorney general
    Whenever a state officer or employee is charged with a criminal offense arising out of the performance of an official act which was fully in ...
  • 10.01.160 Costs -- What constitutes -- Payment by defendant -- Procedure -- Remission -- Medical or mental health treatment or services
    (1) The court may require a defendant to pay costs. Costs may be imposed only upon a convicted defendant, except for costs imposed upon a ...
  • 10.01.170 Fine or costs -- Payment within specified time or installments
    When a defendant is sentenced to pay a fine or costs, the court may grant permission for payment to be made within a specified period ...
  • 10.01.180 Fine or costs -- Default in payment -- Contempt of court -- Enforcement, collection procedures
    (1) A defendant sentenced to pay a fine or costs who defaults in the payment thereof or of any installment is in contempt of court ...
  • 10.01.190 Prosecutorial powers of attorney general
    In any criminal proceeding instituted or conducted by the attorney general, the attorney general and assistants are deemed to be prosecuting attorneys and have all ...
  • 10.01.200 Registration of sex offenders and kidnapping offenders -- Notice to defendants
    The court shall provide written notification to any defendant charged with a sex offense or kidnapping offense of the registration requirements of RCW 9A.44.130. Such ...
  • 10.01.210 Offender notification and warning
    Any and all law enforcement agencies and personnel, criminal justice attorneys, sentencing judges, and state and local correctional facilities and personnel may, but are not ...
  • 10.01.220 City attorney, county prosecutor, or other prosecuting authority -- Filing a criminal charge -- Contribution, donation, payment
    A city attorney, county prosecutor, or other prosecuting authority may not dismiss, amend, or agree not to file a criminal charge in exchange for a ...

Last modified: April 7, 2009