IN THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE STATE OF WASHINGTON In the Matter of the Personal Restraint of ) No. 77460-3-I LARRY PAUL WILLIAMS, ) DIVISION ONE ) Petitioner. ) UNPUBLISHED OPINION ) ) FILED: September 16, 2019 ANDRUS, J. — Hana Williams, a teenage girl from Ethiopia, died in her adoptive family’s backyard, the victim of physical abuse, inflicted starvation, and hypothermia. A jury convicted Hana’s father, Larry Williams,1 of first degree manslaughter in connection to her death and first degree assault of a child of his adopted son, l.W.2 We affirmed Larry’s convictions and sentence in State v. Larry Paul Williams, No. 71112-1-I (Wash. Ct. App. Dec. 21, 2015) (unpublished),3 review denied, 185 Wn.2d 1034, 377 P.3d 741 (2016) (hereinafter L. Williams). In this personal restraint petition, Larry challenges both the legal and evidentiary basis for his convictions as well as the adequacy of his trial and appellate counsel’s representation. After a thorough consideration of the trial 1 Larry and his wife, carri, were charged and tried together. We refer to them by their first names for convenience. We mean no disrespect. 2 We refer to Hana by her given name but refer to the adopted son by the initials lW. because he was a minor at the time of trial. ~ http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/7 11121 pdf. . No. 77460-3-1/2 record, the parties’ briefing, and oral argument, we deny his personal restraint petition. FACTS In the early hours of May 12, 2011, Larry received a phone call from his wife, Carri, as he drove home from his job at Boeing. Carri told him that she had found their daughter, Hana, lying face down in the backyard, naked and unconscious. Larry instructed Carri to call 9-1-1, raced home, and helped perform CPR until the medics arrived and transported Hana to Skagit Valley Hospital. Hana was pronounced dead at 1:30 a.m. on May 12, 2011. A subsequent investigation revealed that Larry and Carri routinely physically and psychologically punished Hana, then a young teen, and I.W., a 9-year-old hearing-impaired boy, both of whom they had adopted from Ethiopia in 2008. Dr. Daniel Selove, the forensic pathologist who performed Hana’s autopsy, noticed that Hana had visible injuries on her pelvis, elbows, knees, and calves; bruises on her knees, eyebrow, and upper pelvis; and multiple impact marks on her thighs and calves. He determined that when she died, Hana suffered from severe malnutrition, with an abnormally thin body and protruding ribs and shoulder blades. Dr. Selove identified Hana’s cause of death as hypothermia, with malnutrition and a bacterial infection in her stomach, h. pylon,4 as contributing ~ Helicobacterpylori (commonly known as h. pylon), is a bacterial infection of the stomach. https:llwww. mayoclinic.org/diseases-cond itionslh-pylori/symptoms-causes/syc-203561 71. Dr. Selove indicated the bacteria was present when Hana died but could not confirm whether Hana was actively experiencing symptoms at the time of her death. -2- No. 77460-3-1/3 factors. Dr. Rebecca Wiester, a Board-certified physician in child abuse pediatrics with malnutrition and hypothermia expertise, confirmed that Hana died from hypothermia ...
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