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Wash. Rev. Code § 10.27.080 (2025)

Persons authorized to attend—Restrictions on attorneys

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No person shall be present at sessions of the grand jury or special inquiry judge except the witness under examination and his or her attorney, public attorneys, the reporter, an interpreter, a public servant guarding a witness who has been held in custody, if any, and, for the purposes provided for in RCW 10.27.170, any corporation counsel or city attorney. The attorney advising the witness shall only advise such witness concerning his or her right to answer or not answer any questions and the form of his or her answer and shall not otherwise engage in the proceedings. No person other than grand jurors shall be present while the grand jurors are deliberating or voting. Any person violating either of the above provisions may be held in contempt of court.
[ 2010 c 8 s 1020; 1971 ex.s. c 67 s 8.]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 1972–1995 · leading case: State v. Carroll, 515 P.2d 1299 (Wash. 1973).
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State v. Carroll, 515 P.2d 1299 (Wash. 1973). · cites it 2× “The hearing shall be subject to the provisions of RCW 10.27.080 and 10.27.090, unless the witness shall request that the hearing be public.”
State v. Madry, 504 P.2d 1156 (Wash. Ct. App. 1972). “RCW 10.27.080 was apparently drafted to differentiate between contempt proceedings and other subsequent court proceedings arising from the investigation of the special inquiry judge.”
State v. Harville, 518 P.2d 730 (Wash. Ct. App. 1974). “The hearing shall be subject to the provisions of RCW 10.27.080 and 10.27.090, unless the witness shall request that the hearing be public.”
In re Special Inquiry Judge, 899 P.2d 800 (Wash. Ct. App. 1995). “) RCW 10.27.080. Under the general rules applicable to appearances by attorneys and under the particular statutes governing special inquiries, counsel representing a witness before the special inquiry judge is without standing or authority to file a motion and affidavit for…”
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