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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5092

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Senators Goings and Costa)

Read first time 03/03/99.

Including as an element in 1st degree robbery, the act of causing someone to believe that the person committing the robbery possesses a deadly weapon.

    AN ACT Relating to displaying a deadly weapon; amending RCW 9A.56.200; and prescribing penalties.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 9A.56.200 and 1975 1st ex.s. c 260 s 9A.56.200 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) A person is guilty of robbery in the first degree if in the commission of a robbery or of immediate flight therefrom, he or she:

    (a) Is armed with a deadly weapon; or

    (b) Displays what appears to be a firearm or other deadly weapon; or

    (c) By conduct or speech, implies, announces, or otherwise causes any person who is present to reasonably believe that the person committing the robbery may possess a firearm or other deadly weapon, whether or not such weapon is actually possessed; or

(d) Inflicts bodily injury.

    (2) Robbery in the first degree is a class A felony.

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