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Wash. Rev. Code § 29A.04.079 (2026)

Infamous crime

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An "infamous crime" is a crime punishable by death in the state penitentiary or imprisonment in a state or federal correctional facility. Neither an adjudication in juvenile court pursuant to chapter 13.40 RCW, nor a conviction for a misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor, is an "infamous crime."
[ 2013 c 11 s 3; 2009 c 369 s 1; 2003 c 111 s 114. Prior: 1992 c 7 s 31; 1965 c 9 s 29.01.080; prior: Code 1881 s 3054; 1865 p 25 s 5; RRS s 5113. Formerly RCW 29.01.080.]

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Contests, conviction of felony without reversal or restoration of civil rights as grounds for: RCW 29A.68.020.
Denial of civil rights for conviction of infamous crime: State Constitution Art. 6 s 3.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 9 cases, 2007–2013 · leading case: Madison v. State, 163 P.3d 757 (Wash. 2007).
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Madison v. State, 163 P.3d 757 (Wash. 2007). · cites it 2× “RCW 29A.04.079. Once disenfranchised, felons may seek to restore their civil rights through a governor's pardon.”
Madison v. State, 161 Wash. 2d 85 (Wash. 2007). · cites it 2× “RCW 29A.04.079. Once disenfranchised, felons may seek to restore their civil rights through a governor’s pardon.”
State v. Slattum, 295 P.3d 788 (Wash. Ct. App. 2013). “331(1) (persons convicted of *655 welfare fraud “shall be punished by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not more than fifteen years”); RCW 29A.04.079 (“infamous crimes” punishable by “death in the state penitentiary or imprisonment in a state correctional…”
Farrakhan v. Gregoire, 623 F.3d 990 (9th Cir. 2010). “” Wash. Rev. Code § 29A.04.079. Washington has disenfranchised felons since 1866, four years before the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified.”
State v. Eichelberger, 180 P.3d 880 (Wash. Ct. App. 2008). “110(3). And a first degree escape conviction carries the punishments inherent in all felonies, such as the loss of voting rights.”
State v. Eichelberger, 144 Wash. App. 61 (Wash. Ct. App. 2008). “VI, § 3; RCW 29A.04.079. Thus, the temptation for a convicted defendant to make a speedy courtroom exit between the entry of an oral and written ruling would remain if he risked only a finding of contempt.”
Farrakhan v. Gregoire, 603 F.3d 1072 (9th Cir. 2010). “” Wash. Rev. Code § 29A.04.079. Washington has disenfranchised felons since 1866, four years before the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified.”
Farrakhan v. Gregoire, 603 F.3d 1072 (9th Cir. 2010). “” Wash. Rev. Code § 29A.04.079. Washington has disenfranchised felons since 1866, four years before the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified.”
Farrakhan v. Gregoire (9th Cir. 2010). “2 Article VI, § 3 provides: “All persons convicted of infamous crime unless restored to their civil rights . . . are excluded from the elective fran- chise.”
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