Washington Supreme Court November 6, 2008, No. 79384-1 (State v. Jensen)

lead-opinion

Madsen, J.

¶1 This case concerns the unit of prosecution for solicitation to commit murder. While in jail for threatening his wife, William Jensen solicited a fellow inmate to murder four members of his family. He repeated the solicitation to the inmate’s purported crime partner and offered an additional sum of money to kill the youngest victim.